slowwness at boot (hours)

[John Van Ostrand]

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.


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