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[OT] how to detect a dying hard drive



Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a
hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is
something wrong with the hard drive? What are the various error messages I
should look out for?

I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I
feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large files
than it did before. That is why I think the hard drive could be dying.

raju
-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/


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