Is there a bootable standalone CD or floppy that contains smartmontools?
If you have a system that is showing signs of disk trouble (for example, it’s unbootable and the console is full of disk error messages) it can be handy to have a version of smartmontools that can be run off of a bootable CD or floppy to examine the disk’s SMART data and run self-tests. This is also useful if you want to run Captive Self-Tests (the -C option of smartctl ) on disks that can not easily be unmounted, such as those hosting the Operating System files. Or you can use this to run smartctl on computers that don’t use Linux as the day-to-day operating system. Here is a list of such bootable CDs: • extLink: Fedora Core 7 Live Bootable CD • extLink: LNX-BBC Bootable CD • extLink: Stresslinux Bootable CD • extLink: RIP (Recovery Is Possible) Bootable CD • extLink: SystemRescueCd • extLink: STUX Bootable CD • extLink: Parted Magic • extLink: Knoppix (extLink: Debian/testing based CD) • extLink: Gentoo Installer LiveCD • extLink: grml Linux Live-CD (extLink: Debian/unstable based CD
