On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:43:54 -0800, David wrote in message <4eb729ca.1090...@holgerdanske.com>:
> On 11/06/2011 03:13 PM, David Purton wrote: > > Fairly recently - maybe in the last few months - but it's hard to > > tell, the disk performance has dropped through the floor. > > First, make at least two complete back up sets and store one off-site. > > > It could be a hardware problem. ..look for disk read errors with e.g.: 'dmesg |grep error' or 'dmesg |grep read' or 'dmesg |grep sda' (or the old worn style 'dmesg |grep hda'), of that output is long enough to warrant piping output to less (e.g. 'dmesg |grep error |less'), put in and install to a new disk and then follow David's back-up advice. ..your old disk should still be readable for the usb disk readers before it dies totally, there are dd-rescue etc type tools for those data rescue jobs and you wanna work from a known good OS on your new disk. > Your hard drive manufacturer should have a diagnostic utility > available in the form of a bootable ISO image. I'd download, burn, > and boot that. If the diagnostic finds a problem, proceed > accordingly. Understand that other issues may make a good disk look > bad (power supply, power cables, motherboard, controller card, data > cable, etc.). If the utility finds no problems, then I'd wipe the > disk using the utility, do a fresh install, and then restore/ > reconnect data. > > > As an aside, I use one disk for swap and the root file system, and a > second large disk for data. Then whenever I do a fresh install, most > restoring data is a simple matter of hooking up the data drive. > > > HTH, > > David > > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111108105743.213ce...@nb6.lan
