Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham alex@avantel.ca:

On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:15:38 am Anne Wilson wrote:

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I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages from smartmontools. Is there any way I can check that? If it is I don't want to waste time trying to repair it.

try smartctl to see what the monitors have been finding for you.

man smartctl

Thanks. I'd been trying to remember what command I needed for that :-)

The short test has completed without errors. I'll run the long test during dinner. Assuming that that also runs without errors, I guess that the next thing is memtest?

More suggestions?

Thanks

Anne