Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

[Ash Varma]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:55 -0600, Joe Menola wrote:

On Friday 10 March 2006 8:37 pm, Ash Varma wrote:
> thanks...
>  ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline
> and replace the drive...

Keep in mind that any attempt to backup or copy this drive could be what kills 
it completely. 
My advice is don't use the drive until a replacement is available, and then 
only use it to transfer data to the new drive.
Whatever you decide, only attempt backup/transfer after the drive is over 
night cold. 

HTH-jm

thanks for the advise..

the drive in question just holds the /boot, one of the swap partitions and my /usr/portage..
i have already disabled the swap on the drive and have a backup of the /boot stored in the attached raid array on the machine...
not too concerned about the /usr/portage

but good advise anyways :)

Thanks