On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 14:29, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > What are the best way(s) to diagonose the health of a hdd, and not only > it's filesystem. Preferably, what 'Fedora abailable' commands can I use? Use smartctl if the drive supports it. If it doesn't, a brute force nondestructive approach is to 'cat /dev/xxx >/dev/null' to force every sector to be read and watch for error messages on the screen or logged to /var/log/messages. Or you could use the 'badblocks' program. > I'm going to soon install some HDDs i had sittign around, and I just > wanted to know how to test them to see if they are any good, and how bad > they may be. I usually low-level SCSI drives when moving them to a different controller. It's probably just superstition now but it used to make a difference. Or course you can't do that with IDE drives. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
