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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