> technomage.hawke@gmail.com> wrote: >> now I remember what the other tool was: hdparm. that tool will tell >> you what the SMART status is on the HDD. From: Michael Havens > It seems to me everything is good. > hdparm /dev/sda1 hdparm won't tell you about the SMART status on a disk. I think you may be looking for /usr/sbin/smartctl , which will report the SMART status for everything on sda if you call it with "smartctl -a /dev/sda". However, the last time one of my disks died, smartctl didn't say anything was wrong until I started getting read errors on various sectors. Also, if you're having trouble mounting an ext23 filesystem, something you might want to try is to mount it using the backup superblocks. "mount -t ext3 -o sb=131072 /dev/sda2 /mnt/somewhere" is the canonical first backup superblock to try. Or since reading the disk appears to be working, copy each partition somewhere, make a copy of that copy, and attempt to work on that copy with e2fsck and/or debugfs. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss