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