Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

Quoting Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>:

> My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile.
> Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are

BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW then do this:

check the dmesg command, and /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog

if it's dying, you'll see it in the log/dmesg

also install (if you can):

sys-apps/smartmontools

and tell it to do a scan

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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Monitor_your_hard_disk(s)_with_smartmontools

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