hello dear linux experts


well today i have a new question: i have had different errors on my notebook


now i guess that my harddrive is broken.

question: How do I check the health of my hard drives? I know that you can do it with system rescue,
But well - is there a way to do it from root without booting onto system rescue?

there must be another way:

heard about the smartmontools.

Do you think that this is the tool i need: Well probably this is the package i am looking for. Is this shipped with the openSUSE-linux?

Do you use more / other tools?

love to hear from you

Smartmontools uses the definitive standard for reading a hard drives health. What have you tried so far?

Apart from smartmontools, there is badblocks utility.
If you have Windows installed you could use HDDScan utility.

HDDScan does the same thing as smartmontools; read the S.M.A.R.T. data from a harddrive. Most if not all HDD diagnostics utilities read the S.M.A.R.T. data one way or another.

Learn more about S.M.A.R.T.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

See this recent thread where I help a user analyze their S.M.A.R.T data.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5/#post5293855

HDDScan provides a lot of things apart from reading SMART: read-write-verify-erase tests from arbitrary start LBA for arbitrary LBA count, shows access time for each sector as a map or as a graph and some other things. And, more importantly, shows the results in GUI.

You can download HDD checking utility from your hard disk drive manufacturer.

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I usually use smartctl, but sometimes I may use the manufacturer's tools. Most are on:
https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Generally the OEM tests are the best. This assume the system and controller are OK.