Drive errors

[Mark Fraser]

On Friday 17 October 2008 18:58:37 Jim wrote:
> Mark Fraser wrote:
> > On Wednesday this week I started to get some errors on my /dev/sda1 drive
> > which is mounted as '/'. The first I knew there was a problem is when a
> > program tried and failed to delete a file from /tmp because the drive had
> > been remounted as read only. I then shut down and did a fsck on the drive
> > which fixed a few problems.
> >
> > Now,however I'm getting thing like this in the logs:
> >
> >
> > To me this looks like the drive is about to fail, am I right?
>
> Heres a article on how to see if your hard drive is on it's way out.

>
> Now, run a quick health check:
>
> # smartctl -H -d ata /dev/sda

smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

>
> This is good news. One more quick check — read the drive's error log:
>
> #  smartctl -l error -d ata /dev/sda

I have errors there, but nothing that's new. However, I did receive the 
following email from smartd this morning:

The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:

Device: /dev/sda, Read SMART Self-Test Log Failed

Emanoil, I haven't run badblocks yet, but I loaded up a live CD this morning 
and ran fsck.ext3 which didn't find anything wrong.

Also, I have done a backup of the majority of the drive, but if I was to copy 
everything to a new drive how do I make a bootable partition?
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