Ubuntu :: Checking Disk Mean Checking All Partitions On Hd?
May 10, 2010
Sometimes at startup I get this message "Checking disk 1 of 1". Does that mean it's checking all partitions on the hd? After a bad shutdown there is no prompt for fsck to run and the system just boots up. In fstab I have both options set to "1" for the partition Ubuntu is on, all others set to "0". Any ideas on both?
Sometimes when Ubuntu starts, it appears a screen with "Scanning disk in progress. It may take some time". But after it reaches 70% it completely stops, so I have to do a hard restart . Can I just switch off this automate? It doesn't help only makes problems. And slows down booting.
I have newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 lts. Everytime when I am boot my system, Ubuntu try to check my harddisk. I am stopping that by pressing "c" key.Why it is so? anything problem with my hard disk or I need to disable anything for avoiding it for everytime?
I am using Kubunt 10.04! once while using ubuntu 10.04 and ubuntu 10.10 i got the notification that the hard dsik may be failing!Can anyboy tell me a way find the status of my hard disk whether it is in good condition or not!
On my FC11 installation Palimpset Disk Utility icon in the top menu bar is reporting that I have a disk failure with the caption "one or more disks is failing".When I open up the details section in Pilimpset I can see that "2 sectors are failing",I have checked this with gparted checking facility and it reports that the disk is OK.What I would like to do is to check the disk using a command like tool or ofline tool, which would then tell me where those bad sectors are on that partition so that I can resize it (using gparted) and have the bad sectors in NON ALLOCATED DISK SPACE.
I am just wondering if there are any tools for checking the life of the hard disk. I had my hard disk for 4 years. And now I think it is having some problems.Is there any tools I can use to check the condition of the hard disk?
how to Check the disk usage of different linux servers using df -h linux command. My host server is 66.50.100.1, I can check its disk usage by using df -h command. I got my disk usage. Now using my host server Im going to check the server 66.50.100.3 disk usage. Is its possible to check the disk usage of 66.50.100.3 using my host server?
I'm trying to setup my test nagios to check the disk space of another linux box. I've got it setup and checking. But to my surprise, it was checking the nagios server's local disk space instead of the remote linux.
Here is my services.cfg.
define service{ use basic-service name disk-space check_command check_local_disk!20%!10%! /
I have Update Manager set to check for updates daily, to 'only notify about available updates', and have 'important security' and 'Recommended' updates turned on.Since upgrading to 10.04, Update Manager never starts up to tell me that there are updates available. If I run it manually and click on 'Check', I have to type my password in and then it will show that I have updates to install (if there are some of course).
I realise that I shouldn't get a notification icon any more, and that update manager should open instead.Anyone know whether this is something I can fix, or if it's a bug or a problem with the update server that I can't do anything about other than wait?
My laptop keeps saying Checking battery state is that something to worry about? The laptop goes has a black screen on it saying Checking battery state then says ok.
Im checking some webpages Im trying to update using tidy. Im getting some messages about the doctype of my pages, Im trying for HTML 4.01 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
but I keep getting some comment which amounts to the doctype not being formatted correctly.
Does Anyone Know what the correct doctype format for html 4.01 transitional is?
I chose Mint 8 Fluxbox and have the iso. I cannot figure out how to check the iso for errors and the MD5 signature.I'm using Windohs XP so I tried to install MD5sum.exe. When I double click on it to run it all it does is flash and then nothing.When I type in the commands it says it can't find it or it can't read it or something.I may be typing the commands incorrectly. I'm just not understanding.I need to check the iso for errors but can't understand how to check it.
I'm working on my first bash script. My script will do several things but right now I'm just trying to get the basic part of it down and working.I have a section that looks like this
The problem is that if you take that right now and run it, it will return back good in that it does exist. What I need it to do is pass back that it's bad because it doesn't exist (that is unless you actually do have that directory in your root).
I am getting some error when i compile cross compile "dbus-1.2.20".error
Code: checking for XML_ParserCreate_MM in -lexpat... no configure: error: Could not find expat.h, check config.log for failed attempts so i downloaded te expat library sources i cross compiled. But again i am getting same error. I think i have to add "-lexpat" in LDFLAG. But i dont know how to do that.
I would like to ask some questions about checking which driver loaded for a hardware. Information: I am using Ubuntu and Xubuntu version 9.10.
1. For all types of hardware (including but not limited to network adapter, video card, sound card, USB devices, etc), if the command 'lshw' configuration does not show the loaded driver for a hardware, but the hardware work perfectly, is there any other way to know which driver loaded for that hardware WITHOUT ANY RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET, (and for network device, without using "connection information" feature in NetworkManager) ? If yes, how to do it?
2. Does your answer in question 1 will work for external hardware (hardware based on USB, FireWire, etc) and also the other non-pci based hardware? If it will not work, any other ways?
3. For your answer in question 1 above, do I need to install any packages that was not installed by default during Ubuntu installation?
4. For network hardware, "connection information" feature in NetworkManager does show the driver information. But, like stated in question 1, "lshw" command does not show the information about the driver used, then how NetworkManager get information about the driver used for a network hardware?
My brother gave me a copy of Ubuntu 10, since my upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 screwed up. Installed it easy. But strange problems occur. After a few minutes of starting the system, it enters a command prompt, regarding "Checking batter state" yet my computer runs on an adapter, no battery exists (except the built-in one on the motherboard), and I have to restart my computer.
I've been using Eclipse for Java, and it has a nice feature that allows for syntax checking while as you type your code. I downlaoded Eclipse-CDT to write my C, and it has the same feature except it is much less helpful (ie. suggesting a correction, or where the error is).Is there an IDE that has a good realtime syntax checker? This is to help my noob C and C++ programming
I just installed Banshee 1.7, now I get this error when I check for updates. It doesn't look like it's affiliated with Banshee but I can't figure out what it's for.
Could not download all repository indexes: Failed to fetch [URL] 404 Not Found
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I checked the md5sum of the iso using winMd5Sum utility, it is OK.
To check the CD, right clicked the md5sum file in it, send to winmd5sum, and then copied the corresponding hash from the ubuntuhashes page into the bottom text box, and compared. The message box says md5 sums are different. Now the question is, have I done it correctly, I mean, is this the way to check a burned CD, OR, is there another way to check md5sum of a burned CD?
What would prompt this? i shut off teh computer and turned it back on , didnt press any buttons and it started checking my drives, so i pressed C and cancelled it.
I have an Archos Vision A15VS mp3 player which I am recharging through the usb connection of my laptop. Unfortunately, as far as I can see, there is no way of checking the battery state during the process as the screen of the player only shows a usb icon when the lead is connected.
This means that I don't have a visual confirmation that the battery is actually charging!
Obviously I could simply unmount the device, check the microscopic battery icon on the screen, and if not showing "full" repeat the process.
How do I check if a file is a soft link in the terminal? They're usually color coded, but I gave permissions to a colleague and now every file is green. Is there a simple command for this?
Not sure if this is the right place fo this but....I'm just learning to write bash scripts. I'm experimenting on a ubuntu server 11.04 virtual machine.As part of the script I want to automate user creation.Is there a way to check if a user already exists in a script. so i can do something like
Code: if userexists; then do this else do this instead fi