[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[Kent Broestl]

After two extended offline tests...

# smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdf
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 13047 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 13038 -

The drive isn't dead. (So one question is answered...)

After mount -f /dev/hdf1 /storage the drive appears in the df and mount. 
but... hdf1 should be 40GB and it shows up as only 9.2GB (the same as 
hda2, aka / ) and the usage is exactly the same, too (696M). None of the 
files that were in /storage are present on ls -la /storage.

fdisk -lu /dev/hdf1 looks okay:
Disk /dev/hdf: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders, total 80293248 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdf1 63 80293247 40146592+ 83 Linux

So the partition table isn't hosed.

But I am definitely at a loss...

Jim wrote:
> Kent Broestl wrote:
>
>   
>> if it will not unmount, I think the read/write head is stuck in the position 
>> it was in when it got kicked. 
>>     
>
> This is _very_ unlikely. If the head is stuck, one would not 
> get far enough for it to be considered mounted. 
>
> Time to explore smartctl. 
>
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