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

Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> Fri, 14 May 2004 10:37:22 -0700

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Nick Moffitt writes:

> begin  The ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen  quotation:
> > ----- Forwarded message from John Gilmore <[email protected]> -----
> > 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.
> 
> 	Have you checked out the arch tree yet?

No, I'm afraid I haven't.

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