On Mon, 06 Nov 2006, Thaths wrote:

> On 11/2/06, thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In one of interview of RHEL I have been asked following question.
> > Please help me in getting answers
> 
> In short, you want help with interview questions? ;-)

A-ha :)

<snip>
> > 5) without using dmesg and message file, how one can get prior
> > information that a particular disk is malfunctioning and going to
> > crash / fail.
> 
> Maybe something under /proc?

Maybe you're looking for smartd and smartctl. Look up smartmontools on
sourceforge. Just te hthing you are looking for.

hth,

Sharukh
-- 
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.                        Homoeopath, Linuxer.
  He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht.

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