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

[james riley]

Ah, a pair of zeros. So it's not about to die on me before the next
student loan (touch wood).

Also, /how/ many hours of use...

James R

On 13 February 2012 12:49, James Holden <wylug at jamesholden.net> wrote:
> 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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