Wes Gregg wrote: > Hello, > > My wife told me today that linux locked up on her yesterday and nothing in >that chapter of the reference manual worked and she had to reset or kill >power. I booted today to check and my hard drive is going CLICKthump >CLICKthump. Sounds like it is on the way out, and a new (or even a new used) >one isn't in the budget at this point. I know in MSWindows I can use >scandisk and defrag to (hopefully) identify errors on the drive and avoid >those areas. > > My question: Is there anything that I can use to scan or "error check" my >hard drive and perhaps allow me to tell the system to avoid "bad" areas? >Hopefully something already on the power pack cd's? > > Thanks, >
Don't know any way to check the disk. But the same thing happened to me about 6 months ago. I managed to boot the failsafe option and then did a complete .tar.gz backup which I copied onto a CD prior to taking my hard disk back to PCWorld (as luck would have it, it was still under guarantee). I installed the new disk, re-installed Linux and then restored the backup. System back to normal in about half a day. Your first priority should be to save data and configuration before the whole thing goes belly up. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. - Kinky Friedman (Frequent Flyer)
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