check hard disk health with smartctl
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To check health of hard disk, use command
smartctl -a /dev/hda
Where /dev/hda is device name for hard disk.
To find device name, use df -h command, for example, on a server with SATA Hard Disk
[[email protected] ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 9.7G 375M 8.9G 4% / /dev/sda8 996M 37M 908M 4% /tmp /dev/sda7 195G 476M 184G 1% /home /dev/sdb1 227G 188M 215G 1% /backup /dev/sda3 9.7G 2.8G 6.5G 30% /usr /dev/sda2 9.7G 468M 8.8G 5% /var /dev/sda1 99M 16M 78M 17% /boot tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /dev/shm [[email protected] ~]#
This server have two hard disks, device names are
/dev/sda /dev/sdb
To check the first hard disk for errors, use command
smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda
We added extra "-d ata" as this is SATA hard disk. If you don't add this, smartctl will tell you to add this.
[[email protected] ~]# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 Serial Number: WD-WCANY3710745 Firmware Version: 20.06C06 User Capacity: 251,000,193,024 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Thu Jan 24 01:51:27 2008 CST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (7800) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 92) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 6) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 187 186 021 Pre-fail Always - 5641 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 207 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 127 102 000 Old_age Always - 23 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 200 051 Pre-fail Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. [[email protected] ~]#