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#1 2009-11-28 21:29:41

lestoil
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New HD fsck after 20 boot FAILs

Recently replaced HD1 when Smart Drive warned of failure after 7-8 yrs of use.  It held Arch install so did clean install on 1st partition after using PM8 to format the partition as ext3. Install went fine.  Today after 20 reboots  'forced FSCK' ran and showed 4 bad mozilla files and  continued its thing. But a big red FAIL showed at end of the process ;and the system rebooted immediately to grub and Arch.
  Is this of concern? Is there somethng I need do? Thx.

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#2 2009-11-28 21:51:39

deej
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Re: New HD fsck after 20 boot FAILs

I may be mis-reading, but is this the *new* hard drive that's giving problems ?
If so, make and model please.

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#3 2009-11-28 23:10:57

lestoil
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Re: New HD fsck after 20 boot FAILs

Yes new ide HD:WD2500AAJB8P(Model No.) Western Digital Caviar. Barely 2 wks of use. WD and Maxtor have been favorites for 15+yrs.
Only possibly related  pacman logs when arch installed showed firefox authentication failed with ca-certificates and that would use shasum or md5sum instead. Otherwise review of all /var/logs showed nothing pertinent.
When arch rebooted said files ok on LN1(/ ext3 partition label).
Thx deej for response:).

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#4 2009-11-29 00:14:06

lestoil
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Re: New HD fsck after 20 boot FAILs

# shutdown -Fr now <Enter> shows "checking filesystem" on LN1 and at end says "0.3% non-contiguous files" on LN1. 
As an aside: That was similar message to "fsck forced" on CentOS on 2nd drive. It otherwise was problem free. I removed CentOS only after 5.4 upgrade caused too many crashes.

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#5 2009-11-29 07:19:48

deej
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Re: New HD fsck after 20 boot FAILs

Mmmm... I vaguely recall having a similar problem using a third-party programme to format a disk.
I always format - or re-format - using Arch nowadays, never caused a problem so far. Maybe a
re-install, just to check ?

Deej

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#6 2009-11-29 19:24:28

lestoil
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Re: New HD fsck after 20 boot FAILs

Thx deej for reply.  I had several bad experiences by letting the install program partition/format the HD- one with FreeBSD, CentOS and Suse. Mandrake and Debian were the exceptions. Partition Magic has been reliable as long as I don't allow the os to format partitions. Thx again.  Hope I don't have to re-install Arch.

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#7 2009-11-29 20:14:44

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Re: New HD fsck after 20 boot FAILs

You never have to reinstall Arch.  Just boot to a live cd, mount the arch partition and tar it up to another drive or partition.  Repartition your new drive with gparted-live (google it or search the wiki), then untar and you're done.


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#8 2009-11-29 21:09:37

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Re: New HD fsck after 20 boot FAILs

graysky wrote:

You never have to reinstall Arch.  Just boot to a live cd, mount the arch partition and tar it up to another drive or partition.  Repartition your new drive with gparted-live (google it or search the wiki), then untar and you're done.

cfdisk + mkfs.something does a better job. Parted seems to make a big mess out of the partition layout, not that linux complains, but will make it hard to recover if anything bad happens (which it will).


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