[CentOS] Detecting harddrive problem

Fri Feb 25 09:36:58 UTC 2011
Dominik Zyla <gavroche at gavroche.pl>

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 07:12:59AM +0200, yonatan pingle wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at arinet.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Recently I realize the filesystem became Read-only and there is "media
> > error" message in the system log. It has passed several days without
> > notice.
> > I'm thinking of setting up a script to grep that "media error" and send email.
> > Is there more elegant way of doing this?
> >
> > Thank you.
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> 
> Actions needed to be done:
> 
> Buy new disk
> Remove old disk
> Install OS on new disk
> Migrate data from old disk
> 
> done.
> 
> elegant way?
> but two new disks.
> configure mdadm  to mail you if the array fails.

It's better to configure smartd. With it you can get mails informing you
about relocations, errors, etc from a single disk. Probably it would be 
lot of such mails before array corruption. So you'll have some time for
schedule downtime and swap faulty disk.

-- 
Dominik Zyla

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