Re: Hard disk dying?

[Sam <transiency@transiency.org>]

Cool, thanks for the information Justin. Hopefully all turns out well.

On 8/6/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com > wrote:

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:
>>
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>> 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/
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>> 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
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