[CALUG] Checking for failing hdd

[Chris Edillon]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 23:49 -0400, Keith wrote:
> Curious about the best way to see if a hard drive is failing in Linux.

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/   pretty much all modern
IDE/ATA/SCSI drives use SMART (a hardware-based disk monitoring
capability).

> The drive is still under warranty with western digital too so I will be
> returning it via cross-shipment for a replacement if it's going bad. Is
> there a similar utility as Norton Ghost to just "image" the drive to a new
> hard drive once I get it?

  dd is the canonical unix answer, but if you don't know how
to use it already, it can be cryptic.  maybe g4u ("ghost for
unix") will be useful: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

chris