On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 7:47 PM <p...@xvalheru.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Since last week my gentoo installation start to randomly freeze. The > first I've detected was during huge disk usage, another was during > hibernation, etc. I think it might be related to HDD problems, but I > want to be sure. In kernel log there are some errors, but I'm not able > to decide if those causes the freezing or not (I've saw such messages > earlier too, so I'm not sure). So, is there a good diagnostic tool to > check HW and mainly HDD? What I need to decide is if buying new HDD will > fix the issue or not
Install smartmontools then # smartctl -a /dev/sda