chris wrote:
> I am trying to figure out whats going on with a system of mine, I have a
> fairly cheap IDE drive in it (160GB Western Digital), but over the past
> 2 weeks 2 of the partitions ("/" and "/home") have been corrupted. They
> are both formatted ext3, and one of them is the root for FC4.
>
> I don't see any errors in /var/log/messages, and am not sure where to
> look. I just want to verify the drive is going out before replacing it.
>
> Can anyone point me in the direction of some sw tools are out there to
> help in diagnosing the problem?
smartctl. You may have to install the smartmontools rpm (from the base
FC4 repo).
Run
smartctl -l error /dev/hda
as root: you may need to run
smartctl -s on /dev/hda
(that's all one command to be run as root).
Also try
smartctl -H /dev/hda
smartctl -t short /dev/hda
which will do a low-level check on the disk: wait a minute for that to
run, then do
smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
to see the results.
Fairly obviously, this assumes that the drive is /dev/hda.
Also go to
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=30
and try the manufacturer's tools.
Also try memtest86 (on the boot CD). Seriously: this looks like dodgy
memory.
My sigmonster's being sentient again.
James.
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