[xubuntu-users] speeding up Xubuntu 7.10 by upgrading

[Franji Mayes]

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> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:19:57 +0100
> From: Radomir Dopieralski <xubuntu at sheep.art.pl>
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] speeding up Xubuntu 7.10 by upgrading
>        kernel to       686?
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> Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:12:40PM -0800:
> > install a kernel for a 686. The documentation said to type "sudo
> > apt-get install linux-686" from the command line. I was logged in as
> > root, so I typed the above w/out "sudo". I got a bunch of errors, all
> > of which contained the text "Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical
> > block".
>
> I don't want to worry you, but these kinds of errors usually mean
> a hardware failure of the sda1 disk (probably a hard disk in this case).
>
> Try booting in the recovery mode and running fsck on that disk, possibly
> with -c option to check for bad blocks.
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Thank you for replying!
I typed "fsck"  into the command line and hit return, and got the following:

"fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
e2fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
/dev/sda1 is mounted.
WARNING! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVER filesystem
damage. Do you want to continue?"

That sounded scary so I said "no". Should I say "yes" to that question?

If my disk is bad, did I ruin it by changing from Windows to Linux? Can
damage like that be caused by the disk running for too long? (It was on for
almost a day while I was trying different install methods.) I didn't have
too many problems w/ XP on it, but maybe they were there and I didn't know
about it until now. If the disk is bad, how was Linux able to be installed
at all?

Not sure how to proceed -- thank you for your advice.
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