Recently I have noticed that my drive is noisy from time to time. It is a 6-month old drive, with an older one as slave. I have unmounted all the partitions on the old drive, but it is still happening, so I have to assume that it is the new drive.
We have had workmen in the house for over 2 weeks, and there has been an incredible amount of dust. I cleaned out the inside of the box as well as I could after the main part of the work was complete, but it was only at about time that the noise started. I think it is when writing to swap. I suspect that dust has got in where I cannot follow. How likely is that? I wonder if I should be buying another drive of the same size, then doing an overnight cp -a to the new drive, then attempting to use rsync to keep them mirrored, just in case. What do you think? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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