UNC Linux Users Group

[Andrew Perrin <clists AT perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

What symptoms are you getting *now* that make you think the drive is
dying?  Was there any output from the e2fsck?

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Cristobal M Palmer wrote:

> I'm running Debian and WinXP on a CCI-issue T30 (three years old), and
> yesterday I nearly suffered a myocardial infarction. I thought I had a bad
> sector on the Linux partition. I could boot up in Windows just fine,
> but--needless to say--everything important is on the Debian partition(s).
>
> I ended up booting from a CD (huzzah for Knoppix!) and running e2fsck -y
> /dev/hda6.
>
> That seems to have fixed everything.
>
> So my question is this:
>
> Do I need to look into replacing my HD? Should I be frantically backing
> everything up (not that I haven't been keeping backups, mind you)? If the
> answer to either of these is yes, what's the easy/cheap way?
>
> Thanks, and remember the sage advice of Mr. Wozniak: "Never trust a
> computer you can't throw out a window."
>
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