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| From: | Billy Holmes <billy@××××××.net> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems | ||
| Date: | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:06:05 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20071129155628.zxsxqkrgg0ko48gs@box251.bluehost.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems by Grant |
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| 1 | Quoting Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. |
| 4 | > Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are |
| 5 | |
| 6 | BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW |
| 7 | |
| 8 | then do this: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | check the dmesg command, and /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog |
| 11 | |
| 12 | if it's dying, you'll see it in the log/dmesg |
| 13 | |
| 14 | also install (if you can): |
| 15 | |
| 16 | sys-apps/smartmontools |
| 17 | |
| 18 | and tell it to do a scan |
| 19 | |
| 20 | http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Monitor_your_hard_disk(s)_with_smartmontools |
| 21 | |
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