--- "Pekka K. Kurki" <Pekka.Kurki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system with two hard disks, hda hosts the > system and root-user > stuff, hdb hosts my other user files, etc. The hdb > disk has had some > problems for quite a while. Quite often, expecially > when accessing > different directories on it than the most commonly > used ones, it makes a > tickling noise and there is a temporary freeze of > 10-30 secs until the > disk had completed operations. But I could live with > it. Now, after > having installed RH9, it quite often comes to a > complete freeze where I > can only reboot. Obviously some action is needed.... > I have still ext2 > on that disk, not enough space anywhere else on the > system to do a > complete backup of that disk. Any suggestions about > a "non-destructive > repair"...??? > > Pekka > That sounds like the same thing that was happening on my system just before I ended up installing RH9. I bought a new disk and tried copying the files from the old (dying) disk, to the new one. I got a bunch of filesystem errors, including some errors where it said a number of directories could not be copied as the max number of layers for symbolic links had been reached (or something like that). Of course I didn't know about parted back then ;) At the time, my drive was prompting me to manually go in and run fsck on every other boot. I was also getting the tickling sound. I'm curious to know whether it's the same thing, so if I run into it again, I might be better prepared. Cheers, Matt __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
