Re: Hard disk dying?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

No, smart short and long tests are safe, most people run them daily and 
weekly without ever unmounting for long periods of time.

Justin.

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Sam wrote:

> Justin,
> Should I unmount the drive before doing the tests?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> On 8/6/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Sam wrote:
> >
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> > > Justin, here is the output from smartctl -a /dev/hda
> > >
> > > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
> > Allen
> > > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Your disk looks OK to me, I have seen Device Status Error in the past as
> > well but never suffered any ill effects.
> >
> > Some other things to try:
> >
> > smartctl -t short /dev/hda # wait 5min
> > smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda
> >
> > smartctl -t long /dev/hda  # wait 6-120 min
> > smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda
> >
> > and/then show smartctl -a output again
> > if all the tests pass, your disk should be OK