SilverTip257 wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> > I had a drive failing on a server. I've replaced it. The old drive was >> > /dev/sdb; the new one's /dev/sdd. The manpage and googling are failing >> > me- anyone know how to tell smartd to stop trying to read /dev/sdb >> > (which I've pulled, and is sitting here on my desk)? I don't need the >> > garbage in the logs, and no, I can't just reboot the server, since it's >> > a home directory server.... >> > >> Following myself up, I just tried a simple service smartd restart, and >> I'll see if that worked. But if anyone's got other ideas - I do *not* >> want to have this last after a reboot, though, because I assume sdx >> will change. > > Based on your comments about drive naming (sdX) ... you're using software > RAID. Nope. No RAID involved, just /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. > I've never had problems with smartd keeping a hold on a drive ... anyways Restarting the smartd service seems to have cured it - it was complaining every half hour, and hasn't since the last one before I did the service restart. <snip> I assume it knew what drives were supposed to be there, and it was all in memory. mark