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Latest revision as of 10:47, 13 February 2014
S.M.A.R.T.
SMART tool can show information about registered errors and other Hard Drive information.
Information can be listed by using command:
smartctl -a /dev/sda
where /dev/sda should be replaced with certain device.
Bad sectors
Certain partition can be checked for bad sectors by using following command:
badblocks -v /dev/sda1
where /dev/sda1 is partition which you want to check.
To get list of partitions use command:
fdisk -l
