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appleshampoo
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 Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: hard drive diagnostic tools/steps |
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| I have a hard drive that I thinks is horked. Is there a somewhat standard set of tools to use to verify this? So far I've come up with e2fsck/badblocks along with smartmontools. If running these two will give me a decent idea of what's wrong, then I should be good. Any others out there that will help? |
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frostschutz
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:31 am Post subject: |
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For verifying a hardware failure, smartmontools / badblocks (in non destructive mode) is all you should need. For data rescue, there is dd (or the dd_rescue variant), testdisk, fsck, ...
General rule: If you haven't got a backup, the data wasn't important. |
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appleshampoo
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool, I thought that was the case but I wasn't sure, thanks for the confirmation. I had alread suspected this drive was sketchy, so I didn't have anything important on it, I had just mounted my /usr/portage/distfiles there. And since this box has been turned off for a few months, most of those packages would be out of date anyway. |
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