Best practices for troubleshooting a failing HDD

[Alan McKay]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Jonathan D. Armendariz
<jarmenda at armendariz.me> wrote:
> the Disk Utility. The question I ask of you, in the collective sense, is
> what tricks or best practices might you employ for a Linux (*buntu)
> user? Obviously a command line inquiry would be ideal given that not
> everyone uses the same distro or WM or whatever the case may be. Any
> general guideline or point in the right direction would be most appreciated!

The smart utils are on any distro I've used.

smartctl (8)         - Control and Monitor Utility for SMART Disks
smartd (8)           - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon
smartd.conf (5)      - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon Configuration File

Check the man pages for them - it is pretty powerful and flexible.


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