Quoting Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are
BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW then do this: check the dmesg command, and /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog if it's dying, you'll see it in the log/dmesg also install (if you can): sys-apps/smartmontools and tell it to do a scan http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Monitor_your_hard_disk(s)_with_smartmontools -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list