Re: Detecting disk I/O errors

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:05:41PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> Is there a way to know if there has been I/O error(s) on a specific
> disk or partition since boot other than parsing dmesg and hoping it's
> both still there and in the expected format?

Use smartctl. It can be started in a monitor mode.


Erik

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