On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 15:33 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > > On 20/10/13 03:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 15:17 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > >> > >> On 20/10/13 03:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 14:49 -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > >>>> Because I have separate / and /home partitions, should I check both of > >>>> them or just the / partition? > >>> > >>> Just check the HDD, not a partition. > >>> > >>> e.g. > >>> > >>> sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda > >>> > >>> or > >>> > >>> sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb > >>> > >>> and _not_ > >>> > >>> sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda1 > >>> > >>> or > >>> > >>> sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb8 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> OK, I will try this when/if I have this click problem again and post my > >> results to this form again. > > > > You should run it automatically at startup and write it to a log file, > > e.g. > > > > sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda > /var/log/smartctl-a.log > > > > And after a click noise run it manually and compare what's different. > > > > > As far as I understand, it is running on booting as a daemon already on > my system, do I need to do any additional tunings, e.g. the command that > you write which writes to a log file?
I don't know, but if it's running as a daemon it likely does write a log file. The Internet is your friend, I can't continue now, perhaps I can try to help again tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1382297832.9040.19.camel@archlinux
