Rohit khaladkar wrote: > Hi All,I am using Red Hat Linux 5.2 OS . I wanted to know if by any means > there is a way to find out if my disk is going bad.I looked for some command > and found out "badblocks" command for the same.But the problem is this > command takes lot of time to execute. > > Please let me know if anyone is aware of any other way of finding it out, if > the disk is going bad. Other than checking /var/log/messages for disk-related error messages, not to my knowledge. Yes, it takes a while... but if you haven't made the backups, and started to get a replacement disk before this one crashes, how much *more* time will you be down? I've never used badblocks by itself. When I've had problems, it's *ALWAYS* get everyone off that disk, umount it, and fsck -c, and usually -p as well, to automatically fix it. And then I start pricing a new drive. And do a backup of the filesystem *now*! mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
