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.