[mdlug] How to suppress these warnings?

[Gregory Czerniak]

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80894/how-to-get-smartd-to-ignore-an-hdd

That drive is probably old enough to get a learner's permit if it were
human, so please at least make a backup of that data if it's important to
you.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:49 AM, David Lee Lambert <davidl at lmert.com> wrote:

> So I have a computer running Linux, Debian Stable, one of the drives in
> it has been "about to fail" for several months, since I installed it.
> That particular drive only contains a VFAT partition holding some
> programs that I run with Wine. Anyone have a recommendation for the best
> way to suppress the alerts about it? (Three e-mail messages daily, plus
> three pop-up windows on the desktop...)
>
> Of course I'd like to get alerts if any of the other drives had new bad
> sectors, but the message below is just noise.
>
> -------- Mensaje reenviado --------
> Asunto:         SMART error (Usage) detected on host: huitzil
> Fecha:  Sat, 16 Jan 2016 05:28:05 -0500
> De:     root <root at lmert.com>
> A:      root at lmert.com
>
>
>
> This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>
>    host name:  ******
>    DNS domain: lmert.com
>
> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>
> Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], Failed SMART usage Attribute: 5
> Reallocated_Sector_Ct.
>
> Device info:
> Maxtor 5T030H3, S/N:T3D24FYC, FW:TAH71DP0, 30.7 GB
>
> For details see host's SYSLOG.
>
> You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
> The original message about this issue was sent at Mon Jun  8 17:39:31 2015
> EDT
> Another message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.
>
>
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