Mike
Joshua Gitlin wrote:
Hey Everyone,
I know I commented earlier that I was having these problems before and that my drive went bad... Well now a client of mine is having these same problems on a Dedicated Server that he has and he's asked me to fix the problem. Since everyone recommended Smartctl to Mike I thought I'd try it, but I wanted to know which options (if any) were safe to use on a device with mounted filesystems? I'd prefer to boot the system from a CD as Mike did but obviously that's not possible without physical access, and the Sysadmin managing the server doesn't believe that it could be a hardware failure...
-Josh
On Jan 28, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Mike Parkhurst wrote:
Thank you.
Smartctl does the trick. Turns out that smartctl is part of a bootable distro, StressLinux ( http://stresslinux.org/ ). The bootable CD allows testing on an unmounted disk which, as has been pointed out, is much preferred to the diags possible on a mounted disk.
Mike
Timothy E. Jedlicka - wrk wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, "Mike" == Mike Parkhurst wrote:
Mike> Is there any way to do disk diagnostics in linux?
smartctl? ----- Timothy Jedlicka, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 1-630-713-4436, AOL-IM=bonzowork Network Entomologist, Lucent Technologies, Testers For Hire
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