not sure about destructiveness of smartmontools and "smartctl -a"
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:34 PM, John Meissen <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] said: > > My MythTV box is scheduled to go into the shop on Monday because of an > > intermittent freeze. > > ... > > > Before I take it in to the hardware gurus I want to be sure I've run > > appropriate tests. I ran memtest with no errors. What disk test should > I run > > that will be a non-destructive test? And, when I run it, do I need to > have > > the backend and MySQL shut down? > > What version are you running? You're not using that animated holiday theme > are > you? (That may have been unique to MythBuntu). When I tried it my frontend > grew > to nearly 3GB before I caught it. If I hadn't I would have eventually run > out > of memory and swap space. > > Have you looked in the log files for anything interesting? > > Is this a traditional system with cpu and case fans? I assume you've looked > inside and would notice, but I've had systems suffer from random lockups > due to > heat because the heatsinks were completely blocked with dust buildup. > > john- > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
