[CentOS] /var goes read-only
John Newbigin
jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Mon Dec 4 05:22:25 UTC 2006
Kevan Benson wrote:
> On Friday 01 December 2006 15:24, Joshua Gimer wrote:
>
>> Thanks, that is what we were thinking was happening. Smartd will not start
>>at boot, it parses the config file just fine and then fails.
>
>
> Well, unless that's different than noted behavior before there were problems,
> that doesn't really indicate a bad drive any more than a drive/driver that
> doesn't support smartd. Smartd doesn't work on most sata drives with the
> sata driver included in the stock CentOS kernel.
smart does work, the default config from from redhat is wrong see bug
#176835 and #187181. The output from smartctl used to be wrong. The
correct command was sent by Alfred
Use '-d ata'. -d is for device type, not debug.
Older versions of smart incorrectly said to use '-d libata'. Old
versions of CentOS-4 did not support smart on sata but no one would be
running anything that old would they?
If you want smartd to start at boot, edit /etc/smartd.conf and add '-d ata'
You should probably also read the instructions because out of the box it
probably won't do much useful work.
My config file looks like this:
/dev/sda -d ata -a -m smart-errors at xxxx.com -s S/../.././02|L/../01/./04
-I 1 -I 194 -I 195
John.
>
> When I have seen smartd working, it starts fine but puts messages in the logs
> about drive problems when there are actual problems.
>
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John Newbigin
Computer Systems Officer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin
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