Drive errors

[John Hubbard]

Mark Fraser wrote:
> 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?
>   
Someone mentioned to me the other day the ddrescue command.  You might 
look into it.  You can copy the entire drive onto a new drive. 

-- 
-john

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