On Fri,10.Oct.08, 21:19:13, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > I have a WD external USB harddrive which I use for backups. How can I check > the drive? Is it possible to use S.M.A.R.T (is it supported on USB drives)? > As it is my backup drive I'd prefer to know if something's going wrong. > > The drive is encrypted with luks, automounted by hal. I use Debian sid, > Gnome.
S.M.A.R.T. doesn't work on my external drive. Try the docs from smartmontools, they have some information about this. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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