[Cialug] Re: Sata Spindown problem

[Tim Wilson]

Could you boot from a live CD and do some testing/diagnostics from there?

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, I don't think it's a spindown issue anymore.  I just had a disk issue
> while I was working with the system.
>
> 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.
>
> Parition info:
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
>  1      32.3kB  12.0GB  12.0GB  primary   ext3         boot
>  2      12.0GB  80.0GB  68.0GB  extended
>  5      12.0GB  13.0GB  1020MB  logical   linux-swap
>  6      13.0GB  80.0GB  67.0GB  logical   xfs
>
> 1 is / and 6 is /var/lib
>
> --Justin
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM, <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 ???)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justin
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>
>


-- 
Tim
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20090126/05e2123d/attachment.htm