When Linux hard drives go bad

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Well, first, check your kernel logs and see if a HDD is having
problems.  If it is, you could just go buy a new HDD.

-derek

Duane Morin <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> writes:

> I think my laptop is dying.  For some apps (particularly mozilla) it goes 
> into this weird hang mode where all I can hear is this rhythmic 
> "kachunkachunkachunka" noise for many seconds.   Also some copy operations 
> in the file system have failed with weird "IO errors".  Lastly and perhaps 
> most importantly, sometimes when rebooting the machine it gives me a 
> failure to check the file system.
> 
> Assuming for the moment that a new laptop is not in my future, is there a 
> way that I can somehow detect and flag bad sectors on the drive?  Or at 
> least determine which files use those bad areas so that I can work around 
> them?  Mozilla is the primary culprit, but not the only one.
> 
> Duane
> 
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