Re: sda failure - no log
Tamas Hegedus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last night, very late :-) I did the following:
>
> * press the power-on button
>
> * the system did not start; I think the button was stuck and what I
> could hear (very gentle noise; I had to put my ears close to the box)
> that the power supply and CD-rom got power for a second at every few
> second
>
> * than I took a hammer :-) joke; applied some force on the power-on
> button and the system was turned off; then I could turn the system on
>
> * at the startup I got some massage that the file system check failed,
> press something to enter a shell to correct (run the fschk manually?);
> but I pressed the other something (cntr-d?) and the system booted up
> normally
>
> * I backed up my data
> * This morning I tried to figure out what was the problem, but I could
> not find anything via dmesg - everything seems to be normal; sda was
> brought up normally w journaling - based on dmesg.
>
> How could I figure out the problem, how can I be relaxed about my data
> and using that hard disk? I think the hd should be ok, not very old
> (max 2 year old)... I did not dare to restart my system yet :-)
>
> Thanks for your suggestions in advance,
> tamas
>
>
Use smartcl. (the package to install is smartmontools)
For an IDE hard disk :
smartctl --smart=on --offlineauto=on --saveauto=on /dev/hda
smartctl --test=long /dev/hda
[You wait for time that has been indicated with the previous command)
smartctl --attributes --log=selftest --quietmode=errorsonly /dev/hda
For a SATA hard disk, you just have to add the "-d ata" option to each
command.
Regards,
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