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Hard Drive Testing using smartmontools

Test the hard drive with

smartctl -t long /dev/hd?

This may take hours to run and will do so as a background process.

Once complete run the following to see results

smartctl -l selftest /dev/hd?

Written on 3rd of December 2009

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