ah, yeah that one too. there are so many test tools these days. :) -eric On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Matt Graham wrote: >> 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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