Forcing fsck and smartctl on Ubuntu
Posted on September 8th, 2009 by egiles
If you’re running into hard drive issues, sporadic error messages, or other problems, it’s time to backup and test your drive.
If you’re on a journaling file system ext4 or other, these errors might sometimes get corrected, but you need to replace your drive.
apt-get install smartmontools
smartctl -a /dev/sda1 (or your problematic drive)
Any errors or queued reads/writes [...]
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