On 01/24/2018 10:45 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 01/24/2018 02:51 PM, William Mattison wrote:
> The "smartctl" command with a parameter of "sda3" gives me this:
As has already been mentioned, smartctl works on the entire drive, not a partition.
I'm surprised it doesn't give an error in this case.
> bash.7[~]: smartctl -a /dev/sda3
> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always
- 162318392
> 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 073 060 030 Pre-fail Always
- 24305368
This is somewhat concerning. Is the drive somewhere where it gets a lot of vibration?
Almost certainly a Seagate disk drive. Do a Google search for "Seagate error
rate". Those are _not_ simple error counts.
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