OS Error on Boot

[Wade Smart]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:12 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/08/2009 03:35 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> NoOp wrote:
>>> On 07/08/2009 02:07 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
>>>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>>>    You should run from your login to the point you get to:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ fsck /dev/sdb6
>>>>>
>>>>> This will correct any errors it can and either end normally, or it will
>>>>> tell you where your hard disk is bad.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 Karl
>>>> 20090708 1604 GMT-5
>>>>
>>>> I ran the command, it exited and the computer rebooted.
>>>> Im back at my mail client typing this instead of webmail but, everything
>>>> is running very slow. Apps open very slow. Clicking on a email takes a
>>>> while for it to show on the screen.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Boot into recovery mode and run fsck from the menu there.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>       He already did this...
>
> Not if he did
> $ fsck /dev/sdb6
>
> The '$' indicates that he is doing fsck from a mounted drive. If he did
> it at the end of the error msg as in his first post:
> root at wadesmart:~#
> then OK.
>  I've not found any definitive source for this, but have always thought
> that running fsck from a mounted drive can potentially cause data
> corruption.
>
> But I do agree, following all of the badblock errors, it appears that
> his drive is going bad (quickly) - unless of course running fsck on the
> mounted drive caused the bad blocks...
>
>
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20090708 1911 GMT-5

I did unmount /sdb6 before doing that.

Wade