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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:51:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908081551.36975.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10908071622m71230aa4ua2a3cfb1bfb1e501@mail.gmail.com>

Grant writes:

> >> > Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right?
> >>
> >> Should I be doing more than running this test:
> >>
> >> smartctl -t long /dev/sda
[...]
> Does this indicate everything is OK as far as SMART can tell?
>
> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining
> LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
> # 1  Extended offline    Completed without error     00%   14109 -    

Looks good. Have a look at the output of 'smartctl -H /dev/sda', too. And 
also of 'smartctl -A /dev/sda', there you may spot things that are wearing 
down, but not failing imminently. The output is a little hard to interpret, 
though.

Here's an article about smartmontools:
http://www.linuxjournal.com:80/article/6983

	Wonko




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-08 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-03 20:22 [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter? Grant
2009-08-03 20:29 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-08-03 20:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-08-03 20:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Thierry de Coulon
2009-08-03 21:07   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-08-06 18:59   ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-08-03 21:05 ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-03 21:11   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-08-03 21:16     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-08-03 21:50       ` Alan McKinnon
2009-08-04  9:21         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-08-06 18:57           ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-08-03 21:33   ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-08-03 21:50     ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-03 23:48   ` Grant
2009-08-04  1:01     ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-04 18:26       ` Grant
2009-08-07  3:56         ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-08-07  4:36           ` Stroller
2009-08-05  0:58     ` Dan Farrell
2009-08-05 14:42       ` Grant
2009-08-06 18:11         ` Dan Farrell
2009-08-07 23:22           ` Grant
2009-08-08 13:51             ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2009-08-09 15:47               ` Grant
2009-08-07  2:29   ` meino.cramer
2009-08-07 15:33     ` Grant
2009-08-07 16:07       ` meino.cramer
2009-08-08  5:40   ` meino.cramer
2009-08-10 15:01     ` Paul Hartman
2009-08-10 15:18       ` Dale

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