[CentOS] smartctl question

Fri Jul 25 02:56:04 UTC 2014
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On 07/24/2014 07:00 PM, SilverTip257 wrote:
> 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).

Just a guess... have you looked at /etc/smartd.conf?

-Ben