On Thursday 26 June 2008 07:52:59 Lisi wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2008 04:26:14 Tim wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 June 2008 22:55:00 Hugo Mills wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:40:21PM +0100, Tim wrote:
> > > > Ok the kernel log(1) is full of errors, not that I can make much out
> > > > of it. Is it worth running fsck on the disk to see if it comes up
> > > > with any errors??
> > >
> > > Possibly, but make sure you have backups of the data on some other
> > > device first. There's a good chance that you'll end up screwing up the
> > > filesystem even more by running fsck.
> > >
> > > It's also quite likely that the device needs replacement. You could
> > > also try running badblocks on the device:
> > >
> > > # umount /dev/sdc1
> > > # badblocks -w /dev/sdc
>
> [snip]
>
> > Well I started Hugo command at about 7-00pm last night, its is still
> > running now (4-24am, yes its early), does it normally takes this long or
> > do we assume the disk is dead (its a 500gb disk)??
>
> I have known it take 13 hours to check an 80GB disk.
>
> Lisi
In that case I will give it until Sunday!!
Out of curiosity, apart from killing the process, how do I stop it from
running??
Tim
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