[CALUG] Checking for failing hdd

[william kelly]

Hey,
fsck is what you want to run. g4u is for copying and btw they have g4l. also
you may want to check with your drives manufacturer they a lot of times have
hardisk testing tools. if not i would try the Ultimate boot CD. It has tools
for various HD vendors.



FSCK <http://adminschoice.com/docs/fsck.htm>

g4l <http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l>

UBCD <http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/>


On 9/27/06, Chris Edillon <jce at zot.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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