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davvil

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Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 165

Worrying about my hard disk

I just booted my laptop (Lenovo T500) and the /home partition wasn't there. After rebooting it recovered, but only after a long fsck (without any special messages, as far as I could see). This already happened once, a couple of months ago, although since then I didn't have any problems with it. Both / and /home have jfs as file system, /boot has ext3.

So, I have a couple of questions:

1) Should I be worried? I already have a backup of the most important data, which at the moment of writing I am updating

2) Are there some log files of the boot-time fsck which I can check, in order to have a guess of what might be happening?

3) How could I find if it's a physical or logical error? With / and the windows partitions I never had any issues.

Thanks.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Worrying about my hard disk

hdparm and if your drive supports it, smartctl

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,353

Re: Worrying about my hard disk

... I already have a backup of the most important data, which at the moment of writing I am updating
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By that, of course, you mean you have at least two tested off-line copies, at least one of which is kept off site -- right?

Sorry -- I saw this as an opportunity to get on my soapbox.  I'm done now

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Worrying about my hard disk

I just booted my laptop (Lenovo T500) and the /home partition wasn't there.

  Please confirm that this partition is on the same physical drive as are / and /boot.

What I am most interested in are any log entries that occur at the time that /home fails to mount.

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weltio

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 89

Re: Worrying about my hard disk

I dont know which kind of hard disk is used in your lenovo, but often the manufacturer offers software to test it on a lower level than the OS does. (e.g. Samsung's ESTOOL)
But with handling SSDs I cant help...