At 4:32 PM +0930 9/21/06, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:57 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> You know about the smartctl -l error /dev/hda command, don't you? That
> will show you if the *disk* thinks it needs replacing.
Output below. Do you think this is an avoidable, or unavoidable error?
...
The output shows bad sectors, so it isn't (just) a filesystem error.
It would be nice to know whether the disk thinks it is failed, or
just has some bad sectors. "smartctl -a /dev/hda" will tell
everything.
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