[lug] LUG Digest, Vol 99, Issue 5

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Jan 6 14:22:31 MST 2012


On 01/06/2012 02:15 PM, karl horlen wrote:
> good tips
>
> what would those available SMART tools be?

I generally use smartctl from smartmontools.

smartctl -a /dev/sda

smartctl -t long /dev/sda   to start a background full disk scan.  Use the 
first command to monitor.


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