Slow fsck times

Peter King peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 25 20:02:11 UTC 2011


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 07:23:50PM -0400, Peter King wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:38:37PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>  
> > What does S.M.A.R.T. say (smartctl command)?
> 
> Oddly enough, it passes the SMART offline immediate test. I'm now running
> the extended self-test routine to see what happens.

It failed the extended self-test. By following the smartctl bad-blocks howto,
I got as far as running debugfs, which hung. So I pulled the drive.  Life is
too short to deal with unreliable hardware. I'll get the remaining data off 
(over 98% of the data is already backed up), and put in a new drive to replace
this one.

The defective drive is a Western Digital Caviar Black SATA-1 1TB drive, with
a manufacture date of 21 December 2009. Pretty short shelf life. WD claims a
three-year warranty for these drives, so once I get everything up and running
properly I'll try to RMA it.

Thanks for all the advice and assistance.

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