| Brent Saner on 14 Nov 2007 17:13:42 -0000 |
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maybe i should put together a presentation on hard drive maintenance and recovery... :) anyone interested? kamiza- you need to understand that your drive's hardware is damaged. anytime it makes a noise like that, it's damaged. the longer you run it, the more damage you're causing. get yourself a nice USB external drive and image your drive to it (via the "2-minute non-destructive imaging guide" i posted yesterday). THEN, if you're still interested in testing the drive, try running: badblocks -v /dev/<foo> on it. you can also run (if you're logged in as root- some repos make you run the command as root, for some reason) bonnie++ -u <user> it will then scan your drive and do bottleneck testing, read/write stresstesting, etc. i know knoppix has badblocks. i THINK it also has bonnie++, but if not it's in the repos. -- Brent Saner 215.264.0112(cell) 215.362.7696(residence) http://www.thenotebookarmy.org Bill Gates is to hacking as Sid Vicious was to the Sex Pistols: no talent, everyone hates him, and he's just in it for the fame and money. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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