diff --git a/bin/swift-drive-audit b/bin/swift-drive-audit
index d269b25414..514db51a30 100755
--- a/bin/swift-drive-audit
+++ b/bin/swift-drive-audit
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@ from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
 
 from swift.common.utils import get_logger
 
+
 # To search for more types of errors, add the regex to the list below
 error_re = [
-    'error.*(sd[a-z])',
-    '(sd[a-z]).*error',
+    re.compile(r'\berror\b.*\b(sd[a-z]{1,2}\d?)\b'),
+    re.compile(r'\b(sd[a-z]{1,2}\d?)\b.*\berror\b'),
 ]
 
+
 def get_devices(device_dir, logger):
     devices = []
     for line in open('/proc/mounts').readlines():
@@ -50,13 +52,14 @@ def get_devices(device_dir, logger):
             device['minor'] = str(os.minor(device_num))
             devices.append(device)
     for line in open('/proc/partitions').readlines()[2:]:
-        major,minor,blocks,kernel_device = line.strip().split()
+        major, minor, blocks, kernel_device = line.strip().split()
         device = [d for d in devices
             if d['major'] == major and d['minor'] == minor]
         if device:
             device[0]['kernel_device'] = kernel_device
     return devices
 
+
 def get_errors(minutes):
     errors = {}
     start_time = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(minutes=minutes)
@@ -65,26 +68,29 @@ def get_errors(minutes):
             # Ignore anything before the last boot
             errors = {}
             continue
-        log_time_string = '%s %s' % (start_time.year,' '.join(line.split()[:3]))
+        log_time_string = '%s %s' % (start_time.year,
+                                     ' '.join(line.split()[:3]))
         log_time = datetime.datetime.strptime(
-            log_time_string,'%Y %b %d %H:%M:%S')
+            log_time_string, '%Y %b %d %H:%M:%S')
         if log_time > start_time:
             for err in error_re:
-                for device in re.findall(err,line):
-                    errors[device] = errors.get(device,0) + 1
+                for device in err.findall(line):
+                    errors[device] = errors.get(device, 0) + 1
     return errors
 
+
 def comment_fstab(mount_point):
     with open('/etc/fstab', 'r') as fstab:
         with open('/etc/fstab.new', 'w') as new_fstab:
             for line in fstab:
                 parts = line.split()
                 if len(parts) > 2 and line.split()[1] == mount_point:
-                    new_fstab.write('#' +  line)
+                    new_fstab.write('#' + line)
                 else:
                     new_fstab.write(line)
     os.rename('/etc/fstab.new', '/etc/fstab')
 
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     c = ConfigParser()
     try:
@@ -108,16 +114,15 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     errors = get_errors(minutes)
     logger.debug("Errors found: %s" % str(errors))
     unmounts = 0
-    for kernel_device,count in errors.items():
+    for kernel_device, count in errors.items():
         if count >= error_limit:
-            device = [d for d in devices
-                if d['kernel_device'].startswith(kernel_device)]
+            device = [d for d in devices if d['kernel_device'] == kernel_device]
             if device:
                 mount_point = device[0]['mount_point']
-                if mount_point.startswith('/srv/node'):
+                if mount_point.startswith(device_dir):
                     logger.info("Unmounting %s with %d errors" %
                         (mount_point, count))
-                    subprocess.call(['umount','-fl',mount_point])
+                    subprocess.call(['umount', '-fl', mount_point])
                     logger.info("Commenting out %s from /etc/fstab" %
                         (mount_point))
                     comment_fstab(mount_point)