From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 15:26:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DE7106566B for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 15:26:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [93.89.92.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF128FC12 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 15:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA85E6569; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:27:30 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=6B1PmwNTQPzk TorMpy+OqmTb1z8=; b=iIzYEhjLdQggNKc2cGaPW1X0WpG1NOpYtheaGwZ4mQq2 bOqhfjevPGK3MEKcT8mQWeVyctC9KNWD4NhaX6O4HF87M02ljaDWwYnLfkB+3KVt n6YPSSCchkmM2u7NuFlNmw3JZFy5oJ06hFda7q4uOImvWZjeqvcW5icXx81RhD4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=WvoBMG C6k6g/bgmqzglRIyvmDChoebHz6ifLvFaL71liMz6hGBPqKYNj8m4J1ALFpLGkPL dnNNw3omt6bNE7GvuX9uvwF+GSCnV/e51+2s0XlMSQzgDmyjB8aRcAKSdqwkq2G0 ScffxxW81jqHv15V/BKeM72SosmsUh5aceug0= Received: from [192.168.2.11] (unknown [93.89.81.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2FD74E6568; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:27:30 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4FFAF80B.6040708@cran.org.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:26:03 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Usher References: <1341846744.40490.YahooMailClassic@web122506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1341846744.40490.YahooMailClassic@web122506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using smartctl to detect "scan errors" (like google tells me to do ...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:26:05 -0000 On 09/07/2012 16:12, Jason Usher wrote: > What is a scan error, and which metric should I tell smartctl to check ? I think they mean a SMART scan, as in a self-test - http://www.twopenguins.it/2011/12/test-an-hard-disk-with-smartctl/ has details of how to run it. -- Bruce Cran