[CentOS] Question on failing hard drives

Tue Feb 12 19:30:17 UTC 2008
Garrick Staples <garrick at usc.edu>

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:26:10PM -0600, Jimmy Bradley alleged:
>       In my Cent OS machine, I have 3 hard drives, an 80, and two 200gig
> hard drives. One of the drives is obviously starting to fail, but I'm
> not sure which one. Is there a command line command in Linux that will
> check the drive integrity on all the hard drives and tell me which one
> is going bad?

smartctl.  I like doing a 'smartctl -t long /dev/whatever' when poking at a
drive.

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