Out of curiosity what make and model HD are you talking about?
Take care,
Seth
seth@opentechinc.net
727-919-1598
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On Behalf Of Mike
Manchester
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:58 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Redhat ext3 harddrive problem - and fix - but wonder
why
Well that's what I get for trusting spell check :)
Anyway.
It's starting to act up again. I'm really suspecting it's a bad hard
drive as I can hear noise like when a floppy disk is having trouble
reading a track. And thinks seem to get slower as time goes by. Unless
you know of something else I'm thinking I'm going to replace the drive.
Do you think a reinstall with a format would fix the problem? Being
unemployed I'm a little strapped for cash and replacing a hard drive is
not in the budget :( Mike M.
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:26, Smitty wrote:
> On Thursday 02 January 2003 13:13, you wrote:
> > Well, here's one I don't quite understand.
> > This morning my machine was realllllllly slow it went from being a
> > 1.1 Gig to a 50 mhz processor. So I decided to reboot it took the
> > machine about 8 mins to boot and 9 mins to startx.
> >
> > All things pointed to a hard drive going bad or was bad. So in
> > desperation I decided to boot into rescue mode and run fsck.ext3.
> > Well after about 2 hours of fsck.ext3 running I rebooted and now all
> > appears to working.
> >
> > I'm glad I was able to fix it. But now I have this lingering desire
> > to understand what/why this might have happened. Note on no boot ups
> > did I get any kind of file system checks. Just a reallllllly slow
> > machine.
> >
> > Any incite into this would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike M.
>
> I won't incite, but I will offer you some insight. It Could be that a
> journal
> write was interrupted, causing some corruption. Good thing it was ext3
and
> not another journalling fs, as ext3 has higher capabilities for
repair.
> Smitty
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