From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NmqVH-0001xb-O7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:28:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB0D3E0E99; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB23E0E99 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmqV6-0003WM-J7 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:28:41 -0500 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o23FSe87011107 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:28:40 -0500 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o23FSe7a011104 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:28:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:28:40 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :(" Message-ID: <20100303152840.GB10237@math.princeton.edu> References: <838C106F-28D0-4DFB-822F-520EAECEE034@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <5bdc1c8b1003030600t18807114g3edc81fa6a86500e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: d019a010-f273-4253-bf64-4bbee82d30c9 X-Archives-Hash: c90279b7dc46fd160f45c9faaae70557 On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:26:46PM +0000, Stroller wrote: > I don't think this is a problem. I would love to know what others > think of the `smartctl` output: > > > root@sysresccd /root % smartctl -H /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.38 [i486-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 > Please note the following marginal Attributes: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE > UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 9 Power_On_Seconds 0x0012 001 001 020 Old_age > Always FAILING_NOW 44803h+12m+16s You can always run the smart long-test to double check. The FAILING_NOW just indicates that the normalised value falls below the threshold. For Power_On_Seconds, this usually just indicates that your are way pass the warranty. If you really care about your data, swap it out now or make frequent backups. Otherwise I don't see the harm of keeping it until it actually dies. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton