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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 01:49:18
Message-Id: htkj0l$nc4$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet? by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2
3 > Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its
4 > contents?
5
6 Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you
7 don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl.
8
9 I add smartd to my default runlevel so the hard drives will test
10 themselves once every month and log the test results in syslog.
11
12 Hm. I just noticed that smartd isn't actually running, so I need
13 to do some debugging now. But that's the idea, anyway.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet? meino.cramer@×××.de