On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:22:27 +0100 Dave Cross <davorg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > GNOME seems to think that my laptop has a dodgy hard disk. It's been > telling me that for over a year. I'm not sure that it's correct Red Hat seems to like to ship tools with the slightly questionable view that a disk reporting plenty of bad blocks is 'failing' when in fact what actually matters is whether the lists are growing and what the drive smart data reports. hdparm can give you a much more honest appraisal of your disk, and usually modern BIOSes check whether the drive thinks it is failing on boot (make sure SMART is enabled in the BIOS) Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
