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walt <w41ter@×××××.com> [10-05-27 04:08]: |
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> On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> >Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its |
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> >contents? |
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> Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you |
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> don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl. |
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> I add smartd to my default runlevel so the hard drives will test |
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> themselves once every month and log the test results in syslog. |
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> Hm. I just noticed that smartd isn't actually running, so I need |
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> to do some debugging now. But that's the idea, anyway. |
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Hi, |
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yes, I know smart... |
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I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface |
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and reports every bad sector. |
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Smarts is more of statistical kind: It counts events and tries |
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to calculate dooms day from that ;) |
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