>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On >Behalf Of cpolish at surewest.net >Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 5:02 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64 > >Sorin Srbu wrote: ><snip> >> Anyway, I get a bad block message when running fsck, and am >not sure >> whether this is a interface problem between the chair and the monitor >or >> something with the tech preview. ><snip> > >Having just live through this issue, I recommend you run >the extended (long) SMART test on all your drives and check >the reports. The relevant package to install is smartmontools. >It's worth investing a little time in setting up the package. >I ended up with this incantation in /etc/smartd.conf : > >/dev/hda -T normal -p -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -m >root at localhost > >To execute the extended tests (doesn't mess with your data): ># smartctl --test=long /dev/hda > >To view the test results about 80 minutes later: ># smartctl --log=selftest /dev/hda > >and so on. Good info, thanks! -- /Sorin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5110 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110131/46264262/attachment-0005.bin>