Bug 497202

Summary: No Way to Prevent an Ever Appearing Warning Pop-Up
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel Qarras <dqarras>
Component: DeviceKit-disksAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Daniel Qarras 2009-04-22 18:53:17 UTC
Description of problem:
Recently I've started to get pop-up window warnings for a failing hard disk when logging in on my laptop. It seems that the hard drive has few bad sectors:

root@localhost:~# skdump /dev/sda
Bad Sectors: 11 sectors
Overall Status: BAD_SECTOR
  5 reallocated-sector-count    100   100    36   11 sectors  0x0b0000000000 prefail online  no 

root@localhost:~# devkit-disks --show-info /dev/sda
      bad sectors:         Yes
      attributes:          One ore more attributes exceed threshold
 reallocated-sector-count    100/100/ 36   FAIL    11 sectors  Prefail  Online 

(Not sure if this is correct information, I booted maybe an hour ago and see also:

      powered on:          226 days
)

Anyway, the problem is that this is oldish laptop and I'm not going to replace the hard disk - does this mean that I'll be greeted with this pop-up window maybe next few years until I decide to decommission this system?

I would like to have a button "ok, understood, thanks for the info, don't warn me again about this particular issue" or something like that to make the pop-up to disappear.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
DeviceKit-disks-004-0.10.20090415git.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Always.

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2009-04-22 19:03:59 UTC
Sure, that would be a nice feature addition; it's filed upstream here

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579873

and hopefully we can do that for F12. I'm closing this bug as UPSTREAM since it's a feature request and we try to only track defects in the Fedora bugzilla.

Btw, "powered on" is the amount of time the disk has been powered on for it's _lifetime_ - usually a good indicator to see how much wear the disk has sustained.

Comment 2 Daniel Qarras 2009-04-22 19:11:18 UTC
Ok, sounds good, thanks for the info!