Re: Why does one get mismatches?

[Christopher Chen <muffaleta@gmail.com>]

I keep misreading the the subject of this email thread as:

"Why does one get mustaches?"

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brett Russ <bruss@netezza.com> wrote:
> On 01/20/2010 05:30 PM, Majed B. wrote:
>>
>> He needs to run a full offline or long test before checking with
>> smartctl -a -- since it won't show any sector errors if those tests
>> weren't run at least once.
>
> Not sure I agree with that.  The md checks he's been doing will cause a read
> of all data regions of the relevant partition and if the disk is throwing
> errors, those sectors should be marked probational.  Then, if a subsequent
> repair ends up remapping them, those sectors will show up as remapped.
>
> The grep will show both probational and remapped sector counts for each
> drive.
>
> BTW, the cmd should also include an echo so it's easy to tell which drive is
> being reported:
>
> for di in a b c d e f g; do echo $di; smartctl -a /dev/sd$di | grep -i
> _sect; done
>
> -BR
>
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