[TriLUG] HD Diags

[Joshua Gitlin]

Hey Everyone,

I know I commented earlier that I was having these problems before and 
that my drive went bad... Well now a client of mine is having these 
same problems on a Dedicated Server that he has and he's asked me to 
fix the problem. Since everyone recommended Smartctl to Mike I thought 
I'd try it, but I wanted to know which options (if any) were safe to 
use on a device with mounted filesystems? I'd prefer to boot the system 
from a CD as Mike did but obviously that's not possible without 
physical access, and the Sysadmin managing the server doesn't believe 
that it could be a hardware failure...

-Josh

On Jan 28, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Mike Parkhurst wrote:

> Thank you.
> Smartctl does the trick.  Turns out that smartctl is part of a 
> bootable distro, StressLinux ( http://stresslinux.org/ ).  The 
> bootable CD allows testing on an unmounted disk which, as has been 
> pointed out, is much preferred to the diags possible on a mounted 
> disk.
>
> Mike
>
> Timothy E. Jedlicka - wrk wrote:
>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, "Mike" == Mike Parkhurst wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>
>>  Mike> Is there any way to do disk diagnostics in linux?
>>
>>
>> smartctl?
>> -----
>> Timothy Jedlicka, bonzo at lucent.com, 1-630-713-4436, AOL-IM=bonzowork
>> Network Entomologist, Lucent Technologies, Testers For Hire
>>
>>
>>
>
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