At 4:06 PM +0100 8/7/07, Alan Cox wrote: >On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:29:41 -0700 >"Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> That was all I saw at the console besides the transaction #'s. >> >> I was unable to open any virtual terminals or escape it at all. I will >>try and see if there is any more data at the end. >> >> I am still pretty Linux green. Is there something else that I can >>provide that would help? >> I ran through /var/log/messages and saw nothing. > >Before it choked it will have dumped a set of messages indicating ATA >error information to the system. That may have scrolled off before it >died, and if the disk failed then it couldn't write it to the log either. > >Drives keep their own failure information log usually (partly because of >this) and there are low level tools to access the information: > >open a terminal window > >do > >su - >[root password] >smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda > >and it will dump the data for the first disk. > >That will show you various stats including an overall health self >assessment and also usually the last errors that occurred. Those are the >important and useful bit. Let me add that the word "fail" will always appear in the TYPE column in the report. Look at the "WHEN FAILED" column; if that is clear then the disk hasn't failed yet. See `man smartctl` about this and /don't panic/. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
