[CentOS] EXT3-fs error (devive dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

Matty mattyml at prefetch.net
Wed Aug 2 23:59:05 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Alfred von Campe wrote:

>> the CentOS smartctl _does_ work (for me at least) with SATA disks if you 
>> use the "-d ata" option. So please try
>> smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
>
> I was able to run this command and the output is attached.  Does anything 
> there point to a disk HW failure?  I still think that I'm just suffering from 
> file system corruption.
>
>> You can run a long test with
>> smartctl -d ata -t long /dev/sda
>
> I just started this now, and it told me to wait for 70 minutes for the test 
> to complete.  How do I check its results?

You an use the smartctl "-l" option to view the results:

$ smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda

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