Ubuntu command question

[tdiguy 99]

Does anyone know if "sudo touch /forcefsck" will check every drive connected to the system even if the drive is not in fstab?

My 3tb drive seems to be going south on me. I am seeing incrementing smart errors and the drive is under a year old. So i am going to run a drive check on it and migrate data off it once its replacement comes in the mail. Just trying to figure out a good way to check and repair bad sectors short term so i can move everything.

[Jdiesel 1431]

If you have the smartmontools package installed you can use

 

sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda

 

On an unmounted drive. Disclaimer a long test will take a while to complete.

 

Edit: Sorry I misread your post. What filesystem is on the drive?

Edited March 25, 2018 by Jdiesel

[tdiguy 99]

If you have the smartmontools package installed you can use

 

sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda

 

On an unmounted drive. Disclaimer a long test will take a while to complete.

 

Edit: Sorry I misread your post. What filesystem is on the drive?

I am using ext4 filesystems. Looking through webmin at the smart monitoring i think the errors are coming from: Spin Up Time 511 (Normalized: 129) and Power On Hours 655 (Normalized: 100) The power on hours one is a bit confusing not sure why that matters.

[mastrmind11 722]

To answer your original question, I'd think so, since a drive a recognized long before it has been mounted (or not), just check syslog on startup and you'll see what I mean.