Re: [PLUG] Cloning a dying hard drive

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 08:57:02PM -0400, brent timothy saner wrote:
> On 07/18/2015 08:43 PM, Lee H. Marzke wrote:
> > Did you run smartmontools ( smartmon from the command line ) to determin
> > the errors logged on the disk ?
> 
> Just a quick correction- the package is typically named
> smartmon/smartmon-tools, but the binary itself is typically named
> smartctl. Other distirbutions may change this, but as I recall the main
> ones use that scheme.

Thanks, I figured that out.  It passed the overall health check (-H)
but the short test reported read errors.

I'm going to look through the packages folks have recommended and
decide which to go with.

Walt

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