On Monday 05 September 2005 16:40, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, T. Bryan wrote: > > On the other hand, when I look at the error log (smartctl -l error), it > > shows the last five errors > > Error (17|16|15|14|13) at disk power on > > UNC 45 sectors at LBA 0x01d563ba = 30761914. > > don't wait another minute. power it down,
Thanks. The stuff in the /var/log/messages freaked me out enough, but I wasn't sure what smartctl was telling me. I hadn't used it before, but I think that I'll be adding smartd to my machines. :-) The machine/hard drive has been off for over a week, waiting for me to find the time to do something with it. My wife has been using one of the other machines this week. Thankfully, I moved her over to Linux years ago, so she can use any of the machines in the house, and she has had access to recent backups of her files. :-) > figure out how > you're going to back it up, then mount it somewhere else > (ro), back it up and swap it out and thank your lucky stars. I've already tarred off all of the important files (from Knoppix). I was going to use g4u so that I could get the Windows partition and the Linux partition in one slurp, but I think that I'm in a decent spot to recover now from the tarballs. Do I need to worry about /dev/? When I untar the tarball onto the new disk, what do I need to do so that Debian Sarge will have all of its devices available? Should I get /dev/ from the tarball, or can I regenerate them on boot? ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
