-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of cpolish@surewest.net Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 5:02 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64
Sorin Srbu wrote:
<snip> > Anyway, I get a bad block message when running fsck, and am not sure > whether this is a interface problem between the chair and the monitor or > something with the tech preview. <snip>
Having just live through this issue, I recommend you run the extended (long) SMART test on all your drives and check the reports. The relevant package to install is smartmontools. It's worth investing a little time in setting up the package. I ended up with this incantation in /etc/smartd.conf :
/dev/hda -T normal -p -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -m root@localhost
To execute the extended tests (doesn't mess with your data): # smartctl --test=long /dev/hda
To view the test results about 80 minutes later: # smartctl --log=selftest /dev/hda
and so on.
Good info, thanks!