[CentOS] Disk near failure

Thu Oct 27 15:21:15 UTC 2016
Steve Clark <steve.clark at netwolves.com>

On 10/27/2016 09:43 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Il 27/10/2016 13:58, Leonard den Ottolander ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 11:25 +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
>>> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
>>> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
>> That's the line you are looking for. Since your disk apparently does not
>> store an error log - not sure if that's something with SSDs in general
>> or just with this particular disk - you will always have to invoke
>>
>> smartctl -t short /dev/sda
>>
>> and then after the test has completed check the output of
>>
>> smartctl -a /dev/sda
>>
>> for that particular line. Shouldn't be too hard to put in a cron job,
>> just make sure the job waits long enough (more than 1 minute, make it 2
>> to be sure) with reading the output of smartctl -a after invoking
>> smartctl -t short.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Leonard.
>>

You can also use the service smartd and edit the smartd.conf file and it have it send you emails when a disk starts to fail.


> thank you for suggestion.
>
> Alessandro.
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