Can I know if my disk is going bad.

Ryan Golhar golharam at umdnj.edu
Thu Oct 30 10:23:13 UTC 2008


I usually watch the logwatch messages.  Anytime I've had a disk go bad, 
there are usually kernel i/o errors pointed to /dev/sda (my hd).

Rohit khaladkar wrote:
> Hi All,I am using Red Hat Linux 5.2 OS . I wanted to know if by any means
> there is a way to find out if my disk is going bad.I looked for some command
> and found out "badblocks" command for the same.But the problem is this
> command takes lot of time to execute.
> 
> Please let me know if anyone is aware of any other way of finding it out, if
> the disk is going bad.
> 
> Thanks!
> Rohit Khaladkar




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