On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote: > I've rebooted under finix. fsck -f is happy with the partitions. I'm > running badblocks in read-only mode on the relevant partitions now. >
Since it's a modern drive, all you should need to do is query it's S.M.A.R.T. data via smartmon tools: smartctl -a /dev/sdX as long as VALUE > THRESH for all attributes, your drive should be physically ok. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
