[Cialug] Re: Sata Spindown problem

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

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
>
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