Frequent fsck? Impending hard drive failure or is my install procedure flawed.
Almost everytime I boot Asus g2k-a1 with a well used (maybe previously abused?) HTS5410809SA00 drive, fsck fails exit status 4 normally.
Is my HD getting toasted or could it still have a virus from the banished M$ XPro days? Have run MHDD {Full Erase; from sector 0 to 156037621} numerous times to wipe the SATA drive, btw dban fails to run! I set-up all the partition for multi-boot with Gparted, then reformat / [again as ext3] & swap each time just to make sure the distro loads & installer is happy. Am sharing /home, each distro user is name of the distro so I can see All distros I have already installed on the particular sda#. I use webmail. Get problem even with normal restarts; Kubuntu 8.1, Mandriva, Mepis 8 b6, Mint, Fedora10, most of time have to run a manual fsck on / partition! NOT experiencing fsck on oSuSE boots that I recall (??) All messages on booting & shutdown appear normal to me; OK, or done. Any failures or skipped=As expected for my hardware configuration! |
1. Filesystem type?
2. Use smartctl with different options to test your drive (use live CD for that). Post output 3. Check Bios settings SATA ? Sharing /home will cause all types of problems |
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Another thing to check is how often you have told fsck to run. Use the tune2fs command (as root) to display how often fsck is supposed to be run during normal usage. The command is: tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 or whatever partition you are having problems with. Check these parameters: mount count: maximum mount count: last checked: check interval: See: man tune2fs --------------------- Steve Stites |
ext3, Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 series SATA 5400 rpm, no BIOS that appears to apply
For practice I ran smartctl [No errors] on different machine, but unable to Ctrl copy &/or paste the output
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SMART over=all health assessment test result=PASSED Error # occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 831 hours 34 days + 15 hours. #'s 181, 182, 183, 184, 185 ER 40 ST 51, SC Od, SN c2, CL d9, CH 2b, DH e1 UNC @ LBA =0x012bd9c2 = 19651010 All BIOS appears OK to me, HD set as 1st boot, is only SATA HD on my Laptop Quote:
As far as I can tell shutdowns are normal, what exactly should i look for?? Will run tune2fs, but my counts seemed off as /home was indicated to have been mounted 40 times, but was really only maybe 10 total boots on the laptop at that point since erasing HD [mhdd] & re-installing 3 distros. |
Live CD tune2fs -l /dev/sda# with count results & check interval. ? low level format
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mount count: 16 maximum mount count: 25 last checked: Mon Dec 1 19:35:06 2008 check interval: 15552000 ( 6 months) On partition I know had problems 2, 35, Mon Dec 8 18:01:06 2008 another one 5, -1 Check interval 0 (<none>) [/quote] NOTE: All Hitachi Drive Fitness tests (Quick, Advanced, Excerciser)= Operation completed successfully Disposition Code 0x00 {repeatedly} * Q Should I try a low level format of the HD (vs mhdd Full erase?) ?* and then re-install latest releases of my favorite GNU/Linux distros |
Hi,
You are running 'fsck' as a single user? You can use a LiveCD or your install cd to run the 'fsck' on a unmounted filesystem. That way no user but you will have access to the filesystem. |
Changing Disk Label Type appears to have solved the frequent fsck
After I formatted drive as 'gpt' vs 'ms-dos' the frequent fsck seems to have quit. Drive was restored to 'ms-dos' to load public beta test of Windows 7, and GNU/Linux distros were reinstalled. Not sure why this would solve problem ?
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