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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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