Re: [CentOS] /var goes read-only

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.

When I have seen smartd working, it starts fine but puts messages in the logs about drive problems when there are actual problems.