Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 14:49 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
> Because I have separate / and /home partitions, should  I check both of 
> them or just the / partition?

Just check the HDD, not a partition.

e.g.

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda

or

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb

and _not_

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda1

or

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb8