hard disk failure

[Technomage Hawke]

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 at 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>> 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.
> 
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