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How to check the health of a hard drive.

The SATA drive started clicking and I was unable to access the data. To check the health of a hard drive on a Linux box just type:


smartctl -a /dev/sda

Author AdminPosted on September 10, 2013Categories Console, Debian, File system, SUSE, Troubleshooting

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