Re: HDD clicking
Paul Johnson said:
> * 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.
on top of that I'd reccomend remounting all filesystems read-only. that
can really improve the time available during a disk failure in my experience.
also turn off swap, so no disk writes can occur until you've backed up
all the data that you want(or are capable of backing up)
nate
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