On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, [email protected] 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.
