On 12/23/17 11:23, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 23 Dec 2017 11:49 +0100, from aka@xxxxxxxxxxx (A. Kapetanovic):
2. My HDD did repetitive noises several hours (now that has
stopped), even after a reboot.
It's hard to diagnose simply based on "repetitive noises", but unless
you took specific steps to do otherwise, anything done by the pv | dd
command should have stopped no later than when you rebooted the
...
I suggest checking the SMART data to see how the drive is reporting
its own health. "smartctl --attributes /dev/sdb" as root should be a
start. In the SMART attributes list, look closely at any attribute
where the "VALUE" is close to "THRESH", or where "WHEN_FAILED" says
anything other than "-".
Other than that, I concur with Arno's analysis that it was likely just
a coincidence, possibly triggered by heavy I/O but unrelated to LUKS
as such.
Many HDD manufacturers release diagnostic tools for their products. For
example, Seagate "Seatools":
https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
I prefer bootable CD images, but some manufacturers only offer Windows
executables.
I suggest that you get the tool for your HDD and run it to find out if
your HDD is having problems.
David
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