From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OHT5U-0002oA-8a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 May 2010 02:44:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C2BEE0AE8; Thu, 27 May 2010 02:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E69E5E0AE8 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 02:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 May 2010 02:43:59 -0000 Received: from p54850915.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.9.21] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 27 May 2010 04:43:59 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+VUacRWoaV8WSdQop/PmvFviWU3XM1uN2Cbm5QYy 41BqYKDhN1a+CP Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Thu, 27 May 2010 04:43:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 04:43:59 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet? Message-ID: <20100527024359.GA5123@solfire> References: <20100526031510.GA5053@solfire> <201005261959.32671.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20100526200538.2d35834c@digimed.co.uk> <201005262113.06494.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20100526214055.2c814340@digimed.co.uk> <20100527001915.GA5748@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: cfb4c0c0-f2e1-44db-8d15-18fb64f8bded X-Archives-Hash: 8efb06e4bc945cb2d5e88fb6d1f8b132 walt [10-05-27 04:08]: > On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > >Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its > >contents? > > Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you > don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl. > > I add smartd to my default runlevel so the hard drives will test > themselves once every month and log the test results in syslog. > > Hm. I just noticed that smartd isn't actually running, so I need > to do some debugging now. But that's the idea, anyway. > Hi, yes, I know smart... I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface and reports every bad sector. Smarts is more of statistical kind: It counts events and tries to calculate dooms day from that ;) -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.