Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 15:33 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
>
> On 20/10/13 03:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> As far as I understand, it is running on booting as a daemon already on
> my system, do I need to do any additional tunings, e.g. the command that
> you write which writes to a log file?
I don't know, but if it's running as a daemon it likely does write a log
file. The Internet is your friend, I can't continue now, perhaps I can
try to help again tomorrow.
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