One of the disks that are part of the software RAID powering loudhush.ro has developed a bad sector.
The bad news arrived via email, thanks to smartmontools:
The good news is you can tell the disk to re-allocate the bad sector somewhere else.
I've followed the instructions here: BadBlockHowTo.txt, almost to the letter (I did some additional work removing the disk from RAID), and now the disk looks better.
I still have to replace it, since a bad block is likely to be followed by others but it's somewhat reassuring to know that smartmontools is smart enough to help.
The bad news arrived via email, thanks to smartmontools:
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hdc, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
The good news is you can tell the disk to re-allocate the bad sector somewhere else.
I've followed the instructions here: BadBlockHowTo.txt, almost to the letter (I did some additional work removing the disk from RAID), and now the disk looks better.
I still have to replace it, since a bad block is likely to be followed by others but it's somewhat reassuring to know that smartmontools is smart enough to help.