Problem with Ubuntu Linux system

[Basil Chupin]

On 24/06/10 23:21, Peter Goggin wrote:
>
> My Linux system has developed a problem. It boots to the login stage 
> but is very unresponsive. Eventually it completes the login but 
> remains unresponsive. The disk activity light remains on and the 
> system remains very sluggish. Is this a disk problem or is it a 
> corrupt software problem? If I replace the disk with a new disk and 
> reinstall Ubuntu is it possible to extract the mail information from 
> the old disk, assuming it can be read?
>

Why not get your mail info off the disc now, and not wait? Can you use a 
USB flash disc on the system? If so, format it to be ext3 and then copy 
over - using, say, mc (midnight commander) - your mail sub-directory, 
and anything else you may want (if the flash is big enough of course). 
Or if you can use USB but don't have a flash disc then can you get hold 
of an external USB HD and transfer the data to that?

Re the reason for the sluggishness: hard to say what it could be. Do you 
have smartmontools installed? This should tell you if you HD has started 
to get the lurgie.

BC

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