I have been experiencing some odd behaviours lately in an otherwise very stable desktop box (mostly hangs, some odd clunks now and again).
At first I thought it was RAM since I tried having an upgrade done in rather dry, cold weather. However, I ran memtest86 for a few hours afterwords with no problems. The clunking I thought was a disk spinning up from power saving mode (since I semi-recently added -S240 to hdparm settings). But lately they seem to be happening inside 20 min. of last disk activity. Also, I did do a standard fsck after a couple nasty hangs in row (for both ext3 and reiserfs) and reiserfsck found a few corruptions and fixed them. Naturally, I didn't bother to note which disk or partition, since I still thought at that point it was a byproduct of a RAM-induced hang. :-P So I'm starting to strongly suspect one particular drive (I have 3 x 10GB IDE drives). I'm backing up all my data right now. I've got 1 x FAT32 shared partition, 2 x reiserfs partitions and 2 x swap partitions. (Yes, 2 swap... I had extra space to kill and didn't need a tiny 128MB partition for data. Swap priorities are set accordingly :-P). I want my system back to its stable old self. If that means losing 1/3 of my storage, then so be it. I just don't want to do it on a hunch. So after backing up my data, what can I do to: 1) Thoroughly check all file systems, including swap. -note: I tried a thorough GUI Scandisk from Win98 which resulted in a hang. 2) Stress test the disk to see if I can induce/reproduce a problem? -note: the disk activity LED stays solid red on a hang w/ no disk activity. Sorry for the verbose post. I'm a little caught up in it at the moment. It seems I haven't done backups for awhile, so I've been a little nervous. :-P Thanks in advance, Curtis S. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
