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Re: Large Partition Disks Freezing



On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Nathan Staley wrote:
> Is there anything I should check to determine what is causing the
> disks to fail, or any steps that I could take to prevent the disks
> from failing as often?


Use smartctl to run drive self-tests and view the SMART statistics.  See 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki, which should be available 
in a pkgsrc near you.  :-)

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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