unknown partition table

[Daniel Armstrong]

On 6/29/06, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 6/29/06, Daniel Armstrong <dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > But I wonder... is this "unknown partition table" an indication the
> > drive is failing? I will have to investigate some diagnostic tools for
> > checking hard drive health.
> >
> SMART is a nonintrusive way. smart-monitor can warn you of bad SMART
> test results. Or smartmontools, if you want a tool you can use
> interactively. Or your PC's BIOS might show the results of a SMART
> check at every boot.

I will give it a try. Thanks for the tip, along with alerting me to gpart.
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