OT: Possible disk failure was RE: Assumed disk failure?

[Scott B. Anderson]

I'm not extremely versed in the usage of smartctl but most distributions have this command to check the SMART hard drive diagnostics.  It should be able to tell you if the drive is failing via the command smartctl -a <device> 

Scott


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> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:53 PM
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> Subject: Assumed disk failure?
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> I have a mailscanner box (centos 5) running MailScanner 4.74.16. I am
> getting the below error over and over again in the maillog:
> 
> Database complained about this: disk I/O error(10) at dbdimp.c line
> 271.
> I suggest you delete your
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db file and let me
> re-create it for you
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> I have deleted (moved the file) and I continue to get these errors.
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> The computer is crawling right now and the i/o does not seem high
> enough
> to cause this.
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> I am assuming I have a disk going bad and needs replacement? Is there
> any hope or should I just replace the drive? I am almost certain that I
> have replaced the drive in this unit less than a year ago due to drive
> errors.
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> Any suggestions would be great.
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