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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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How To Check Disk For Failures

It's more of a two part question.

1. Is there a way to check and see if either of my two internal SATA drives are failing?
2. How can I check and see if either disks have filesystem failures?

[root@ghost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250058268160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488395055 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005b294

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1              63   488395054   244197496   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250058268160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488395055 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00048e7c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63     8000369     4000153+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2   *     8000370     8385929      192780   83  Linux
/dev/sda3         8385930   488395054   240004562+  83  Linux

One or both drives are becoming more noticeably noisy. Thanks for any info / help!

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: How To Check Disk For Failures

Try gsmartcontrol, it's a graphical frontend to smartmontools, which in turn display the SMART status of your hard drives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

Post the log here, if you can't understand the values.