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 > -- > Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
