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On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 04:43 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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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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Not so easy (coming in late on this thread, sorry if its been covered) |
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Modern hard drives insulate the outside from whats actually happening |
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internally. They have a number of spare locations they can swap into |
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use when a bad patch develops. This is invisible except to something |
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like smart reporting. Rule of thumb - when a modern drive starts |
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showing bad sectors to the outside world, its already well past its use |
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by date. |
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So something like SMART is the only way for the average Joe to get the |
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health of a drive. |
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Google has lots on this sort of thing |
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