The Saturday 2005-02-05 at 00:50 -0600, devosc wrote:
I installed the smartmontools from the 9.1 distro cds, but it prompted (informed) me to perform a text first prior to enabeling in the run level editor.. can someone provide the syntax to use... I tried smartcl -t but it wants to know about a device?
Then, give it a device. There is a nice man page that explains it all, with examples.
Also, if not too much trouble, could some provide a short list of steps (commands) to perform (regularly) in order to get check / correct the disks... especially if after having to do a hard reboot...
We discussed this at length on the list not long ago. Search for it. I was one of the participants, so it won't be difficult.
I did try fsck but it said current drive had write permissions.... ???
You can not check a mounted partition. However... if you fear your drive is damaged, use the tools provided by your HD maker. It is usually a bootable floppy, which the image can be downloaded from their web page. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson