On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:36:17AM -0400, Tamas Hegedus wrote: > * I backed up my data > * This morning I tried to figure out what was the problem, but I could > not find anything via dmesg - everything seems to be normal; sda was > brought up normally w journaling - based on dmesg. > > How could I figure out the problem, how can I be relaxed about my data > and using that hard disk? I think the hd should be ok, not very old (max > 2 year old)... I did not dare to restart my system yet :-)
I'd stress-test the drive. I use a lot of old hardware so have this down pat: boot with a live CD (I use grml) on boxes that boot CD, and a custom boot set (based on Woody) for older boxes that only boot floppy. on one VT, run e2fsck -c -c (the double -c causes it to do a slow read write verify bad-block test so that each sector gets read and written). Do this for each filesystem you have. On another VT, run tail -f /var/log/syslog and watch for drive errors. If all goes well, reboot the system and do a long smartclt test and see if the drive has recorded inordinate errors. Also check the drive temp after all that activity. Remember, a SMART error is a good indication of a problem, but the lack of a SMART error is not necessarily a good inidcation of a lack of a problem. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
