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 1OHSDm-0002ro-FY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:49:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09BF3E09D0; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBA2E09D0 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878301B40B8 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:48:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.936 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.936 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.337, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id puF8-ylhlmu9 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE9E1B40C3 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:48:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OHSCn-000568-Ql for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 27 May 2010 03:48:17 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-215-193.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.215.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 03:48:17 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-215-193.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 03:48:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org connect(): No such file or directory From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet? Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:48:02 -0700 Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-215-193.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100526 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <20100527001915.GA5748@solfire> X-Archives-Salt: a19e3a38-ab0c-4168-85df-7d9c1145b20e X-Archives-Hash: bc64aa01e68babc0b559010fb6d0e315 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.