On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 15:17 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > > On 20/10/13 03:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 14:49 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > >> Because I have separate / and /home partitions, should I check both of > >> them or just the / partition? > > > > Just check the HDD, not a partition. > > > > e.g. > > > > sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda > > > > or > > > > sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb > > > > and _not_ > > > > sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda1 > > > > or > > > > sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb8 > > > > > > > > > OK, I will try this when/if I have this click problem again and post my > results to this form again.
You should run it automatically at startup and write it to a log file, e.g. sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda > /var/log/smartctl-a.log And after a click noise run it manually and compare what's different. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1382297332.9040.17.camel@archlinux
