On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:33:42AM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > For some days now, I've been hearing repeated clicking sounds from > my harddisk, especially during I/O operations. From the sound of it, > it might be a seek to somewhere on the disk. Yes, probably if it's only happening during disk I/O. > Could this be accesses to the journal (using ext3)? Not necissarily. Could be any data on your disk. I can assure you that ext3 does not cause the sound of hardware to change. Unusual hard drive noises developing are a sign that your disk is getting ready for a dirt nap. *NOW* is the time to back up the information you want to save, don't trust it to make it through the grind of a full backup. To prolong disk life until you get a new hard drive... * Type "shutdown now" to go to single user mode and just leave it at the root password prompt until you need to use that machine, then hit Control-D to cancel out of it. The only two things running when it's at that prompt are init and rootlogin, so it won't be accessing the disk. Try to keep disk access to an absolute minimum. * If you have any power saving features enabled for your hard drive, turn them off now. Spinning up again is a lot of wear on a hard disk, and if the disk is failing, it might not ever get moving again. * On the same note, don't power down, reboot, or do anything that might even remotely cause the disk to stop turning. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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