<div dir="ltr">I highly recommend HD Sentinel. The Linux client is free:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php">http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php</a><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is a good description of why it improves on simply reading SMART data:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.hdsentinel.com/smart/index.php">http://www.hdsentinel.com/smart/index.php</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In general though, if you want to check the SMART data</div><div><br></div><div>sudo apt-get install smartmontools</div><div><br></div><div>sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX</div><div><br>
</div><div>where /dev/sdX is the hard drive you want to check.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Preston</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com" target="_blank">kogorman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a laptop that dual boots Xubuntu 12.04. Windows says it has<br>
detected a drive error and keeps prompting me to take a backup. It's<br>
backup software does not seem to like my 2TB backup disks, and I<br>
wouldn't really trust it anyway, so I've taken full backups with<br>
Xubuntu. Windows of course has no idea I've done that and keeps<br>
bugging me. Too bad that I need it at all.<br>
<br>
However, I'd like to check on the status of the drive but I don't seem<br>
to have any utilities that will report the SMART information. Or I<br>
don't know their names.<br>
<br>
What should I be running / installing?<br>
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