slowwness at boot (hours)

[Marc Lijour]

On March 31, 2006 02:16 pm, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 11:06 -0800, Matthew Godycki wrote:
> >  I'm going to guess that you're experiencing hardware failure.
> >   The only times I've ever seen slow reading disk drives and
> >   otherwise erratic behaviour like you describe has been when
> >   I've had hard drives fail.
>
> The other option is that the file system is still a little mangled. I'd
> try a forced fscsk
>
>     fsck -f /dev/blah
>
> And see if it finds anything wrong.

Plenty of things go wrong. I asked to fix it each time, but it does not seem 
to reach a fix point. I play it again and it finds new errors.

Is the hard drive dying?
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