Ok, I don't think it's a spindown issue anymore. I just had a disk issue while I was working with the system.<br><br>I've installed smartctl, but I'm unfamiliar with it. Can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction to see if my disk is dying? or is there any way to do a "scandisk" from ssh? I know e2fsck required the drive to be unmounted and I can't really do that to the boot drive. Not to mention one partition is xfs not ext2/3.<br>
<br>Parition info:<br>Number Start End Size Type File system Flags<br> 1 32.3kB 12.0GB 12.0GB primary ext3 boot<br> 2 12.0GB 80.0GB 68.0GB extended<br> 5 12.0GB 13.0GB 1020MB logical linux-swap<br>
6 13.0GB 80.0GB 67.0GB logical xfs<br><br>1 is / and 6 is /var/lib<br><br>--Justin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com">jrnosee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Running ubuntu (mythbuntu) 8.10 I'm having an issue where after a time I believe my drive is spinning down and "sleeping." When I bring the system back up I don't seem to have a problem with / (ext3) but /var/lib is xfs (don't know why...) and it won't come back up. This blocks out my ability to run almost any command including sudo! Is there any way to get around this? (i.e. no spindown, switch from xfs to somthing else, or ???)<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Justin<br>
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