Re: [Grml] How to use GRML to check whether a hard disk is failing

Just a short one:

At Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:56:24 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:

Thanks, some of that would be useful (I found more to do with recovering data than checking that the hardware is working fine). Thinking about it, if the hardware isn't working properly I guess I would be unable to mount the NTFS partition (is this right).

Not necessarily. Mounting may work but changing a directory or reading a file may fail or take ages while the kernel log fills with read error messages.

HTH

-- David