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Re: How to check USB harddrive?



On Fri,10.Oct.08, 21:19:13, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a WD external USB harddrive which I use for backups. How can I check 
> the drive? Is it possible to use S.M.A.R.T (is it supported on USB drives)? 
> As it is my backup drive I'd prefer to know if something's going wrong.
>
> The drive is encrypted with luks, automounted by hal. I use Debian sid, 
> Gnome.

S.M.A.R.T. doesn't work on my external drive. Try the docs from 
smartmontools, they have some information about this.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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