[olug] hdd issues

[Nick Walter]

I had the same issue once.  Turned out to be a dying hard drive.  It's
possibly that you have something different going on, but generally my
experience is that recurring hard drive problems of any sort (filesystem,
swap, partitioning, whatever) tend to be bad hardware.

Nick Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Day [mailto:sanguinnus at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 10:13 AM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: [olug] hdd issues


Ok, i apologize because this isn't specifically a
Linux  question, but it has me stumped, and I can't
find a decent answer anywhere.

I have a Windoze 98 box that scandisk tells me C: is
reporting it's free space incorrectly, if I tell
scandisk to fix it, and then run the machine
overnight, the problem returns.

Is this a hardware issue or is it a Windows issue??
and  would running fsck on the drive give me any
better results?

I am guessing that it is a Windows issue, due somehow
to the way that it uses swap space. If that is the
case I would assume that UN*Xes do not run into the
same issues because they run a seperate swap
partition.

Can someone tell me if I'm on the right track here,
thanks
Colin

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