Scary reboot (no harm done)

[Jon LaBadie]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 08:10:06PM +0000, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've just rebooted my lenovo T240 ThinkPad laptop. The mouse pointer would
>not move and the SSD activity light came on full. Eventually, after a
>while, I got to login and type this email.
>
>I ran systemd-analyze blame and got this output as the first line:-
>4.269s dev-sda5.device
>
>1. Would like to know what the "dev-sda5.device" target does.
>2. Would like to know, in general, about how to get info on a target.
>(Ihave Googled for it, no luck).
>
>sda is my internal SSD, partition 5 is my root partition.
>
Perhaps an fsck of the partition.  Either due to an unclean
shutdown or an automatic run if not done for a long time (6 months?).

jl

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