Re: some questions (after a HD crash)
High,
> My little box crashed yesterday. The hard disk started making
> a repetitive whining, metallic noise. Here's the error message
If the drive makes abnormal noise, as you describe, BACK UP YOUR DATA
*NOW*, preferably WITHOUT turning your computer OFF. It could crash every
minute then.
<SNIP>
>
> On bootup, I had to run fsck manually. Now, I seem to have
> completely lost my news spool. Here's the output of 'ls -la'
> in /usr/local
>
> [...]
> ?rwxr-xr-x 11 news news 4096 Aug 27 09:33 news
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 26 22:33 share
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 src
> [...]
>
> What does the "?" denote in a directory listing ?
>
Not sure, but it loks like your filesystem is messed up.
> The hard disk is an IBM 40GB. Not sure of the model, but it's
> only about 4 months old, so I should be able to return it under
> the guarantee. What is the best way to WIPE data on the disk ?
>
Retrun the disk is the best I think.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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> Darren Wyn Rees merlin@netlink.co.uk
>
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