| === Fyodorovna is now known as wilee-nilee | ||
| TheAmericanHero | Hello. I was given an old maching (10+ years) and I've installed ubuntu server on it. Problem is, I think the drive may be bad (or has bad sectors). | 12:23 |
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| TheAmericanHero | I can't get to the prompt right now, is there an alternative to running a check on the hdd? | 12:24 |
| tsimpson | boot to a live-cd and check the disk, checking the disk is the only way to see if it's good or not | 12:38 |
| tsimpson | unless you happen to have a spare working HDD lying around, which you can swap and see if it works | 12:39 |
| TheAmericanHero | Unfortunately I do not have a spare. I have a live-cd but I couldn't find documentation to check the disk. Do you know? | 12:40 |
| tsimpson | !fsck | 12:40 |
| ubot93 | fsck is the FileSystem ChecKer, which runs automatically when you boot if you didn't shutdown cleanly. Type "man fsck" for information on running it manually. The command "sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo shutdown -r now" will force a reboot and a filesystem check; "sudo touch /fastboot" will skip a filesystem check at next reboot | 12:40 |
| tsimpson | it's basically (as root): fsck <partition> | 12:41 |
| tsimpson | where <partition> would be something like /dev/sda1 | 12:41 |
| TheAmericanHero | Where do I type this? With the previous installation I couldn't reach the prompt. With the live cd I couldn't get to terminal either. | 12:41 |
| tsimpson | which live cd are you using? all of them should have a terminal emulator | 12:42 |
| tsimpson | or even if they don't, you should be able to get to TTY1-6 with Ctrl-Alt-F1-6 | 12:43 |
| TheAmericanHero | 12.04.2 desktop i386 | 12:43 |
| tsimpson | it definitely comes with a terminal emulator | 12:47 |
| TheAmericanHero | Ok. I'm loading the live cd now. It will take a few moments. | 12:48 |
| tsimpson | Ctrl-Alt-T should be the default shortcut to open the terminal emulator | 12:49 |
| tsimpson | with dash | 12:49 |
| TheAmericanHero | ok | 12:49 |
| TheAmericanHero | I was able to pull up terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T. Thank you. I will try to fsck command now... | 13:09 |
| TheAmericanHero | I tried a few fsck commands (using different attributes from the man page) but it didn't pan out. The fsck -A just brought me to the prompt immediately. At the moment I'm running badblocks. | 13:24 |
| TheAmericanHero | I can tell it's gonna take an extremely long time to finish so I'll just let it run and figure things out from there. Thanks for your help. | 13:28 |
| doug_ | test | 13:35 |
| doug_ | hello? | 13:35 |
| TheAmericanHero | . | 13:35 |
| doug_ | can any one help me with a bluetooth pearing problem? | 13:36 |
| doug_ | nothing heared, byyyyyyyyyyyyyy | 13:38 |
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