[Wylug-discuss] It never rains, but it pours...

[James Holden]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:27:23PM +0000, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 16:02 +0000, james riley wrote:
> Backups are good, it might be worth running badblocks over the drive to
> see if it is failing just to rule out the possibility of duff ram or CPU
> say.

Also, the SMART tools are useful for checking the drive's
internal diagnostics.

The Ubuntu package is "smartmontools", and the command you need
to run is:

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda (assuming your disk is /dev/sda)

The "Reallocated_Sector_Ct" and "Current_Pending_Sector" figures
being > 0 is a classic sign of impending doom.


James


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