Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:03:22 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about? Message-ID: <20081219170212.A2189@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <C3FFB6B1-BC2E-4A02-B960-219668825E24@strauser.com> References: <C3FFB6B1-BC2E-4A02-B960-219668825E24@strauser.com>
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> smartd to watch the status of my drives and get regular output like: > > smartd[1409]: Device: /dev/ad8, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors > > I've been seeing that exact message for a couple of years now and don't > particularly care. I'd like to know if the drive's about to roll over and > die, but I really don't need to know about the same 4 offline uncorrectable > errors. > > Is there a way to clear that message while leaving SMART enabled on the > drive? I didn't see anything specifically answering it in smartctl(8) but > wondered if I missed something. maybe some time there was an error while writing something, or maybe media failed in that place. by rewriting whole drive you should be able to remove them
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