Tamas Hegedus wrote: > Hi, > > Last night, very late :-) I did the following: > > * press the power-on button > > * the system did not start; I think the button was stuck and what I > could hear (very gentle noise; I had to put my ears close to the box) > that the power supply and CD-rom got power for a second at every few > second > > * than I took a hammer :-) joke; applied some force on the power-on > button and the system was turned off; then I could turn the system on > > * at the startup I got some massage that the file system check failed, > press something to enter a shell to correct (run the fschk manually?); > but I pressed the other something (cntr-d?) and the system booted up > normally > > * I backed up my data > * This morning I tried to figure out what was the problem, but I could > not find anything via dmesg - everything seems to be normal; sda was > brought up normally w journaling - based on dmesg. > > How could I figure out the problem, how can I be relaxed about my data > and using that hard disk? I think the hd should be ok, not very old > (max 2 year old)... I did not dare to restart my system yet :-) > > Thanks for your suggestions in advance, > tamas > >
Use smartcl. (the package to install is smartmontools) For an IDE hard disk : smartctl --smart=on --offlineauto=on --saveauto=on /dev/hda smartctl --test=long /dev/hda [You wait for time that has been indicated with the previous command) smartctl --attributes --log=selftest --quietmode=errorsonly /dev/hda For a SATA hard disk, you just have to add the "-d ata" option to each command. Regards, -- http://snurf.info "Civil Engineering section" project : http://civil-e-section.org « A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. » -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
