Am Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:13:38 +0300 schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332@xxxxxxxxx>: > I did a fsck and badblocks. nothing wrong there. > I don't think it is failing because cryptsetup on an old opensuse live > cd successfully unlocks /dev/sdb1 eventhough it doesn't support ext4. > > I'm reading manpage for smarctl and will run a test and post results. If fsck and badblocks didn't find anything then I doubt, that smartctl willl find something. Heiko