bad blocks on my hard drive

Not a good day for science.

One hard drive from my data server is not working right.Sometimes the system stops responding.

Well, to check for badblocks just use smartctl, ofcourse your hdd must know about smartctl.To check use hdparm

[...]

hdparm -I /dev/hda

[...]
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* SMART feature set


[...]

To see if Checking blocks 0 to 78150744
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 23267840/ 78150744

23489984/ 78150744
done
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks foundthe hdd is ok run:

smartctl -t long /dev/hda

In order to check for badblocks run:

badblocks -sv /dev/hda

If you get something link this:

Checking blocks 0 to 78150744
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 23267840/ 78150744

23489984/ 78150744
done
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found.


...you are lucky, if not, well...bad day for you :(

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