XPost: aus.computers   
   From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   In aus.computers Felix  wrote:   
   > Felix wrote:   
   >> Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >>>   In the latter case run a self-test as I suggested   
   >>   
   >> doing that now   
   >   
   > It wouldn't run. gave an error message "can't mount the drive"   
      
   Then you didn't "run a self-test as I suggested" because smartctl   
   doesn't mount the drive! Like I said:   
      
     Even if that looks OK, it's more certain to run a self-test with:   
       sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sde   
     Then run this every so often to check if it's failed with errors or   
     succeeded after the estimated completion time:   
       sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sde   
      
   Mounting means reading the file system which we already know is   
   stuffed up. The point is to figure out whether the drive stuffed it   
   up because it's dying or it got stuffed up by the OS and the drive   
   is perfectly fine (until you do something like put it in the   
   freezer anyway).   
      
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