On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:29 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > 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. > Ah, thanks for clarifying. In hindsight there was a pretty good chance I was wrong about you possibly using soft RAID. Anyways... BUT removing drives from the SCSI subsystem could still have been helpful to you (since the drives got different block device names). -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //