Morning -- Got a situation where we have a number of used/older dell boxes running centos/fedora (should be the same process of testing the drives). Some of the boxes have already had the OS installed/drive formatted/patitioned/etc.. Some have dual drives. We realized that we should have tested each drive prior to installing/formatting/etc.. So, now we're wondering what's the best/god way to test the drives. We'd like to put together a basic process to allow us to test the given drive, preferably with the drive in the box/running/formatted so we don't have to test the drive in a separate box!! So, any input we can get on software to use, articles to review, etc in order to get a stable test process to get a good idea of the health of our drives would be cool Issues to consider:: -We have running drives, that are partitioned/formatted -we have drives in systems that we haven't started to use some primary formatted/some are installed as 2nd drives we need a way to be able to test all of the drives, preferably without taking the drive(s) out of a box and testing them in a separate box Concern is/are: -bad sectors/blocks -health of drive -capacity of drive -etc.. we've looked into hdparam/smartctl thanks guys! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
