From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 21:24:11 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1E316A417 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:24:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5642013C44B for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:24:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l98LO7kg086410; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:24:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l98LO7JG086409; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:24:06 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20071008212406.GD84240@thought.org> References: <20071007214050.GA75418@thought.org> <470A6C9D.20605@cran.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <470A6C9D.20605@cran.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hard drive testing... 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, 08 Oct 2007 21:24:11 -0000 On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:45:01PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ > > the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was > > something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more > > thoroughly. > > This had been "awhile ago"... maybe ~5 years. > > > > thanks, people, > > > > gary > > > > All recent drives support SMART - to test a drive you can install > sysutils/smartmontools and use smartctl to run a test e.g > > smartctl -t long /dev/ad0 > > There are various different tests you can run, including surface tests, > online and offline etc. > Well sir, Endless thanks due here! These are utilities that I will print and study the man pages to, &c. bonnie++ ran last night and very heavily loaded the system; it came up clean. I'm now running the second (every-4-hours) smartctl test. The first run that you sugggested above also showed no errors. Great that these utilities work with SCSI because that will be my next install on my DNS server. Meanwhile, I've added this to my sysadmin-knowledge-base kit. gary > -- > Bruce -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org