Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 15:17 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
>
> On 20/10/13 03:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> OK, I will try this when/if I have this click problem again and post my
> results to this form again.
You should run it automatically at startup and write it to a log file,
e.g.
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda > /var/log/smartctl-a.log
And after a click noise run it manually and compare what's different.
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