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Re: booting into fresh etch installation



On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 21:05 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> How do I check SMART data? In fact, what is SMART data?

SMART gathers data, trying to predict disk failures. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring%2C_Analysis%2C_and_Reporting_Technology

You should be able to use smartmontools to inspect the data and run
tests. 

> The only difference between the initial lenny install and the second etch 
> install is that I choose lvm for the partitioning. I think. Could that make a 
> difference?

I'm not sure, maybe you touched a bad area of the disk this time, but
that's an uneducated guess.

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