> Is there a command I can use to check the health of the software RAID 1 > that I am running. Any command to check the health of the individual > disks? I'm not sure what to recommend but I know what NOT to recommend. An article concerning the software package named "S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools" appeared in Linux Journal a few months back. (Actually I'm not sure if S.M.A.R.T. works with RAID disks.) This package purported to analyze and monitor the health of hard drives. I ran S.M.A.R.T. on the hard drive of one of my systems. Afterwards I had to reformat the hard drive and reinstall the system in order to get it running again. I contacted the author and it was his opinion that I did something wrong. Even if I did do something wrong the software should not corrupt my hard drive the way it did. -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@xxxxxxxxx -- http://mlake.net - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
