[CentOS] Hard Drive Errors

Fri Jan 20 22:22:59 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:15, James Gagnon wrote:
> Thanks for the info...
> Yeah the only errors I see in /var/log/messages are:
> 
> smartd[2019]: Device: /dev/hda, 38 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> smartd[2019]: Device: /dev/hda, 34 Offline uncorrectable sectors
> 
> So obviously there is an issue with some sectors on the hard drive.. just
> don't know how much I should worry about it at this time...

If the drive is still under warranty you might want to run
the smartctl tests or the vendor's diagnostics (might require
moving to a windows box).  Otherwise just make sure you have a
backup of anything critical (good advice in any case).

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com