Colleen Beamer wrote:
On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen Beamer<colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote:
On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote:
On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer
<colleen.bea...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote:
[snip]
Since there were no updates/upgrades immediately prior to this error, this
could well have been a result of fs corruption, or memory problems. It
would
make sense to check what smartctl -a /dev/sda shows just in case.
I'd be willing to try this, but what is smartctl a part of?
"smartctl -a" asks the hard disk device for diagnostic information.
Yes, but when I ran 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' it tells me the command isn't
found. I did a search for this command and it was found in
/usr/share/bash-completion/ but if I run it (and it is executable to
owner (root)), using the full path to the command, it tells me the
command isn't found. I also tried creating a symlink to it in /usr/bin
and I get the message:
/usr/bin/smartctl: line 3: have: command not found.
Regards,
Colleen
emerge smartmontools
then when that is done, do this:
smartctl -t long /dev/sd<drive letter here>
When you do that, it should print a message that tells when the test
will complete. It is usually a 24 hour format thing too. This can run
while the drive is in use too. Sometime after that time, run this command:
smartctl -l selftest /dev/sd<drive letter here>
That should tell you the results of the test. If it says it passed,
this is good. If it reports a problem, well it is not good. If you are
lucky, it will be like a recent problem I had and reformatting will fix
it. It was a weird problem but beats replacing a drive.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
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