[[email protected]: LNX-BBC should include smartmontools]

Here's a suggestion from John Gilmore.

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To: [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 00:20:05 -0700
From: John Gilmore <[email protected]>
Subject: LNX-BBC should include smartmontools

They're great for diagnosing and repairing failing hard drives, which
is a good thing for an emergency boot CD to be able to do.

E.g. "smartctl -t long /dev/hda" will make the drive test itself and
report the first sector with an uncorrectable error.  Then you can fix
that one (with dd) and retry.  "smartctl -a" will show a bunch of
useful information about errors and the disk, including the LBA of
the last five or six uncorrectable errors.

	John

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