-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a > hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is > something wrong with the hard drive? What are the various error messages I > should look out for? > > I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I > feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large files > than it did before. That is why I think the hard drive could be dying.
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