How to check Hard Drive health

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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