HDD Dying - Get an alert when remounting RO?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:37:56AM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> Looks like I've a got an HDD dying out on me - over the last few days
> there's been lots of issues.  fsck refuses to auto-correct problems
> (ala -p) and manual checks (-fvC) are returning ~ 20 bad blocks per
> run.
> 
> I'll be replacing the drive soon enough, but in the meantime is there
> a way I can be notified (audio/popup/other) when the root drive is
> remounted as read only?

I would say replacing it yesterday isn't soon enough.  It may last
another month with slow error increase, or it might die completely 5
minutes from now.

> The tired machine in question is running Gnome under Ubuntu Edgy Eft.

I don't think any such utility exists, since really when would anyone
have a need for such a thing?

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Len Sorensen
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