Re: How to fix I/O errors?

From	Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to fix I/O errors?
Date	2017-02-03 22:40 +0100
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On 02/03/2017 06:50 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:34:03PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>> Have you looked at the SMART reports?  Please paste the following command
>>> into a root shell, run it once for each drive (replacing /dev/sdX with the
>>> corresponding device name), and paste both the command and the output into
>>> your reply:
>>>
>>> # smartctl -x /dev/sdX
>> root:/var/log# smartctl -x /dev/sda
>>
>> bash: smartctl: command not found
>>
>> What package would this be in?
>>
> apt-file search smartctl
>
> shows this is in package smartmontools (in Jessie, I assume same in
> other flavours)
>
> Also it is installed in /usr/sbin which a non-root user doesn't usually
> have on their path, which implies it may have to be executed as root.
> The # in the sample command line also implies that, but just in case it
> wasn't obvious...
>
> Mark
>
I had been trying as root (see above).  I do not have smartmontools 
currently installed.  If I remember correctly, that is only going to be 
useful if it was already installed so the daemon could be capturing data 
when the problem occurred.  Is that correct, or am I thinking of a 
different package?


Marc

Thread

How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 22:10 +0100
  Re: How to fix I/O errors? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-02 22:30 +0100
    Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 22:50 +0100
      Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 23:20 +0100
  Re: How to fix I/O errors? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-03 07:30 +0100
    Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 08:40 +0100
      Re: How to fix I/O errors? Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 16:00 +0100
        Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 22:40 +0100
          Re: How to fix I/O errors? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-02-07 12:00 +0100
    Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-03 22:50 +0100
      Re: How to fix I/O errors? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-04 08:20 +0100
        Re: How to fix I/O errors? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 22:20 +0100
          Re: How to fix I/O errors? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-06 23:40 +0100
      Re: How to fix I/O errors? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 16:20 +0100
        Re: How to fix I/O errors? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-04 20:20 +0100
          Re: How to fix I/O errors? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-02-06 17:00 +0100
            Re: How to fix I/O errors? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-02-06 18:30 +0100
              Re: How to fix I/O errors? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-06 22:30 +0100
              Re: How to fix I/O errors? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-06 23:20 +0100
            Re: How to fix I/O errors? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-02-06 22:30 +0100

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