[TriLUG] identifying hard drive errors

John Beimler john at radiomind.com
Sat Aug 23 20:30:39 EDT 2003


Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> 
> I suspect there’s a problem with the hard drive.  Periodically the 
> machine will simply freeze, leaving no clues in the log files.  Upon 
> reboot, fsck is very unhappy and produces the following type of output 
> to fix approximately 30 errors:
> 

Try out smartd: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/ , 
although I'd suggest finding the rpm of it that came with your 
distribution. I use it to monitor discs in all my systems, and it has 
warned me about two discs that were on their way to bad.


Peace.

john




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