On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: >>> On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: >>>> On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer >>>>> <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>>>> On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > [snip] > >>> Since there were no updates/upgrades immediately prior to this error, this >>> could well have been a result of fs corruption, or memory problems. It >>> would >>> make sense to check what smartctl -a /dev/sda shows just in case. >> I'd be willing to try this, but what is smartctl a part of? > "smartctl -a" asks the hard disk device for diagnostic information. Yes, but when I ran 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' it tells me the command isn't found. I did a search for this command and it was found in /usr/share/bash-completion/ but if I run it (and it is executable to owner (root)), using the full path to the command, it tells me the command isn't found. I also tried creating a symlink to it in /usr/bin and I get the message: /usr/bin/smartctl: line 3: have: command not found.
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