[CentOS] /var goes read-only
Matty
matty91 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 05:43:42 UTC 2006
On 12/4/06, John Newbigin <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au> wrote:
> 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.
I was referring to the "-d" flag that you pass to smartd on the command line:
-d, --debug
Start smartd in debug mode
Not the configuration flag that goes into the smartd.conf
configuration file. Sorry for any confusion.
Thanks,
- Ryan
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