Hi Guys, A quick run of "smartctl /dev/sda -a" gives me no errors. Log follows:- === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 (SATA/300) Device Model: Maxtor 6V200E0 Serial Number: V40KPSSG LU WWN Device Id: 0 150500 7da7feb4f Firmware Version: VA111630 User Capacity: 203,928,109,056 bytes [203 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 0 Local Time is: Fri Mar 16 20:22:57 2018 GMT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled I thought that this disk was 500Gb, it says above 203Gb, or is that value the used space. It shows 458Gb + 25Gb in "My Computer" It also shows the 458Gb partition as sdf1. === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 4622) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 90) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x0021) SCT Status supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 32 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 208 208 063 Pre-fail Always - 13404 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 75 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 063 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 211 000 Old_age Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0027 251 240 187 Pre-fail Always - 54359 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 251 251 000 Old_age Always - 718 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 157 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 223 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 648 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 060 060 000 Old_age Always - 40 (Min/Max 13/40) 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 034 253 000 Old_age Always - 40 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 1132 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0008 199 199 000 Old_age Offline - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x000b 253 252 180 Pre-fail Always - 0 204 Soft_ECC_Correction 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 205 Thermal_Asperity_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 207 Spin_High_Current 0x002a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 208 Spin_Buzz 0x002a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 210 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 211 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 212 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. -- Best Regards: Baron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting