You can also check the disk with manufacturers tools for physical
defect/damage. Back up your data first! Some of the tests are destructive.
But they generally warn you first.
On Feb 17, 2012 10:17 AM, "
kitepilot@kitepilot.com" <
kitepilot@kitepilot.com>
wrote:
> Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
> as root:
> dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null
> Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other error than
> "read beyond EOF" (or something like that)
> ET
>
>
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> Yep.... I think I had a hard disk failure. I restarted my computer and was
>> presented with:
>> error: unknown filesystem.
>> grub rescue>
>> I then typed 'ls' and the response was
>> (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)
>> which is two partitions, the swap drive, and the floppy disk
>> how do I verify my suspicion of drive failure?
>> funny how all this happened just as I was attempting to back it up.
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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