[gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

[Grant]

My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile.
Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are
VERY long delays in responsiveness.  I've run fsck /dev/hda3 but it
reports nothing wrong.  Does anyone have any suggestions for getting
this thing to straighten itself out?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

[Billy Holmes]

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

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