A hard disk occasionally fails. Standard checks like fsck and scandisk fail to report any problem. Is there other software to exercise the disk much more thoroughly so that bad sectors have no chance of being missed?
View 1 RepliesA hard disk occasionally fails. Standard checks like fsck and scandisk fail to report any problem. Is there other software to exercise the disk much more thoroughly so that bad sectors have no chance of being missed?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have some bad sectors on the primary HD and want to move everything to a new HD. What would be the steps to do this. I have 5 running websites on the server. The HD are the same make and model. My current HD setup is
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1 Linux LVM 232.65 GB 1 30370 LVM VG server1
2 Extended 243.17 MB 30371 30401
5 Linux 243.17 MB 30371 30401
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E: Unable to locate package squid
I have installed the latest server (Ubuntu 10.04). When I tried (including sudo apt-get update first followed by sudo apt-get install virtinst) I get Unable to locate the package virtinst. It also did it for a few others as well. The apt-get update command is successful (on the console it says it is Done). I have network connection (no proxy) and I am able to ping other systems at home and outside world. So I don't believe it is network issue.
View 1 Replies View RelatedNew to Ubuntu not to Unix. I am having issues with aptitude updates. Gives error unable to locate. When I look for the file manually I cannot find it either. It is looking for http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US. Is there a site that list all mirrors that carry the updates? I would like to find manually and adjust source.list file.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am a total noob in the process of trying to build my own server. I installed Ubuntu 10.10 but when I did that I didn't have the computer hooked up with an ethernet or have any internet connection. During the installation process it was unable to set up DHCP, so I figured I would just do that later, somehow.
Anyways, I recently hooked up an ethernet cable from the server to another computer, which has internet.
I've been slowly working my way through the Server Documentation and am on the Networking chapter. It has given me the commands to install wireless-tools, ethtool, dhcp3 server and I've also tried to install gedit. Every time it gives me the error: E: Unable to locate package XXX
When I ran the sudo lshw -class network command I find that it recognizes both an ethernet interface as well as a wireless interface(my wireless adapter). BOTH of them say *-network DISABLED.
My goal is to enable both of those, but I am assuming I need to be able to locate the packages first. I installed the server edition using a USB pendrive. I still have the files on the pendrive, but I don't know how to make the server locate those files. I'm guessing it wants to access the installation files to locate the packages to install.
I'm trying to solve this problem, but always get Time limit exceeded. I've tried my best but still can't get under time limit. Could you please give me some hint about it?
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I got a Web Server running great. But I need to back it up. It doesn't for some reason detect either of my USB External HD's. How can I make a TAR or something and burn it to DVD and then be able to restore using that disk.
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i have a "oneliner" that echoes if theres "internet connection or no".
$ ping -W 1 -c 2 bix.hu >& /dev/null && ping -W 1 -c 2 www.yahoo.com >& /dev/null && echo "internet connection ok" || echo "no internet connection"
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is there any PHP upload/download connection speed test script out there
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently got a bad virus that wouldnt let me reinstall Windows so I figured I would install Ubuntu and give it a go, but now it says my hard drive has "many bad sectors" a quick Google search shows many ways to fix this in Windows, but how do I do it in Ubuntu?Easily since Im just getting the hang of things.
View 8 Replies View RelatedSince a few days all of my computers (3) running Ubuntu 9.10 report on startup that my external drive has "lots of bad sectors".I have checked this disk on Windows XP with chkdsk and with the SeaTools diagnostic tool dowloaded from Seagate. Both report no problems.Does anyone else suspect these Ubuntu "bad sector" warnings are unreliable?
View 9 Replies View Relatedhaving problems loading any OS because of bad sectors. will only load off live cd 9.10
View 1 Replies View RelatedI used to have windows xp. But recently I started having a message at startup telling me that my disk might be failing and I should run the test (which would crash and reboot th laptop). Then after a while windows wont even start. So I tried to use ubuntu netbook live from a usb and it is working fine ! I can even access all my data on the hard disk, although it is telling me that the hard disk is failing and that it has 1024 bad sectors. I have only one hard disk and one partition (120 GB). Can I just install ubuntu and somehow block the bad sectors? (I don't want windows anymore) and is there any way I could keep my old data on the hard disk without backing it up (it is not really important btw).
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI was looking in the disk utility and my primary slave has a few bad sectors, is there a way to fix this? I have attached a screen shot.
View 4 Replies View Relatedsince i've installed lucid, when booting up between the splash screen and the desktop i get lines of multiple i/0 errors. i checked disk utility and it's reporting multiple bad sectors on my hard drive
i don't think that the lucid install is the culprit but since i have no idea i was curious if anyone thinks it's related. not worried about the hard drive, i have a back up formatted and ready to go if this one goes nuclear.
I have some errors on my drive and I fear it may be faulty. However there are a few things I would like to try before replacing it through the manufacture or buying a new drive of my own seeing as this is a brand new computer.
Here is my computer and drive:
Acer 5251-1513 Laptop
Toshiba MK2565GSX
Running Fedora 13...now
Here is what is going on. Tried several version of Ubuntu 10.4 (studio, 64bit, 32 bit) and was having many errors during startup and having to press F to fix. Then I lost something with Gnome and the GUI would not function, and I did not know how to replace it. Tried a few other distros but could not get them to work (mostly on my part I am sure.) Then after some forum talk, thought it might just be Ubuntu unable to handle my drive. Now on Fedora 13 and a warning comes up every time I startup. "Disk has many bad sectors"
In the disk utility under the SMART Data it has 2 of the following warnings:
5- Reallocated Sector count..with a value of 72 sectors
197 Current Pending Sector count...with a value of 35 sectors
Total Bad Sectors 108.
The next day that went up to 110
I have used Fsck several times through a live CD, but the problem persists. Trying to understand bad blocks and how to write them to a file?
I have an Acer tiny desktop using laptop components and I want to replace its small laptop hdd running Vista with a Kingston SSDNow V Series Boot Drive 30GB and install Ubuntu, since it will support TRIM. I am aware of the current issues on some new hard drives with 512 vs. 4k sector sizes and the necessity to align sectors for those drives. And I know I've seen some posts or discussion of aligning sectors for SSD's.
I'll be doing more searching for info on this, but my previous searches on the 4K sector alignment issue for the new WD hdd's on linux were confusing. Does anyone have definitive information on the necessity of aligning 4k sectors on current Linux kernels, or on whether aligning sectors is necessary for SSD's?
I recently buy a Corsair F60, and F14 (and F11) said there is MANY bad sectors on my SSD. Is it a smartctl bug ? how can I confirm or infirm that ?
[root@localhost ~]# smartctl /dev/sdc -a
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
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After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
I have a massive ZFS array on my fileserver. Whenever a disk reports bad sectors to smartmon, I order a replacement, and I shelve the failing one.
And by "shelving the failing one", I mean that I give it a low-level format if applicable, or a destructive badblocks run to possible claim spare sectors to replace the bad ones, then use it to dump my DVDs (and lately BluRays) on, so that I can use it with my HTPC and bring it with me when going to my friends to watch movies. It's just a really easy and portable way to watch movies with XBMC. I have the stuff on pressed discs already, so I'm not dependent on their reliance, and the dying drive just gets a hospice life serving as quick-access media storage. Keeping in mind Google's reports that drives are 39x more likely to die within 60 days after their first SMART error, I'm expanding that period by the fact that these drives mostly remain on their shelves and are only plugged into the SATA bay once or twice every year.
I'm just saying this to make clear that I'm not confused about these drives dying, and I'm not looking to elongate their lives ;)
So. Sometimes these drives, after a badblocks run, simply claim fresh sectors from the spare pool, but sometimes there aren't any left, and I face the fact that there are bad sectors in my FS. That's not a problem if you use one of a set of linux filesystems, as mkfs.* often takes a badblocks list as input. But seeing as I sometimes bring a drive or two to my girlfriend's (Mac) or one of my friends (usually Windows), I've decided to use NTFS for these things. Up untill now, when a drive had unrelocatable bad sectors, I've just written data to it, re-read it, and files that were bad were put in a "BAD_SECTOR_FILES" folder on the drive.
Sure, it works, but it would be really nice to be able to just mark those sectors bad instead. It's a lot of hassle the other way around.
So I read some posts, of which most quickly switch subject to the often accurate one of "replace your drive!", and some suggest spinrite, but really, I don't see why I should pay that much money for such a trivial task.
The alternative is to use ext3, but I'd like to hear if someone knows how I can feed badblocks output to mkfs.ntfs, so that the bad blocks aren't used. Or if there are other tools (I could use Windows in a VM) that do the same. I'm confused about chkdsk, it seems the bad sectors thing is FAT only?
Just came up my mind about repairing the bad sectors using software.Does using a software really repair the bad sectors in the hard disk?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy sister's laptop (toshiba satellite l550 running lucid) often runs really, really slow, even after a fresh install. Going through the gnome main menu, everything just lags by several seconds. Closing applications often takes a while, etc. I've run top and iostat to determine what the problem is and it seems to be IO-related. User processes and system processes don't take up more than a few percent, but the average load is usually over 2 even when I'm barely doing anything. Top shows that, whenever everything slows down, the 'wait' criterion is pretty high.
Now, I've also tried installing lucid to an external USB hard drive and that works fine. I'm currently running the S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic and so far I've got the attached screenshot to show. Only the criterion shown and the 'current pending sector count' are showing warnings.Any thoughts? Could the performance issue be related to the hard drive warning? I'm not planning to replace the hard drive just yet, because this laptop still has a two-year warranty.
I've just added a second disk to one of my computers. It is a 500GB SATA. It is the second drive according to the BIOS. Fedora calls it /dev/sdb. So far so good. This box is running Fedora 13 final. Never any problems until the addition of the new disk. Palimpsest says that this disk has a LOT of bad sectors. This disk is a storage drive. I want to address the problem but don't know what to do first. My thought is to rsync all the data to my external 250GB disk bedore I do anything else but I'm mot sure if I should just yet. Maybe I should run some diagnostics on the drive? If so, what? How about the tools Disk Utility offers? Should I use the Smart Utilities? What other Linux tools are available and are they reliable? Maybe I should install XP on the main disk and use Windows' disk tools? If I should lose all data it wouldn't be the end of the world but I'm not sure how "in sync" the 2 storage drives actually are.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI did set up a new server (with mail, apache and lots of other stuff) and was not aware that the new harddisks of type WD10EARS-00Y5B1 were using 4KB sectors internally. The problem became visible after going live because of the lousy performance of the harddisk drives.
Present situation: openSUSE 11.2 i586, 4 GB RAM, 2x 1TB HDD
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Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000efdd0
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I already did re-partition /dev/sdb with parted-2.2 (compiled from source) and set the alignment starting with sector 64 (instead of the default 63) making sure that the sector count of every partition divides by 8. Now comes the tricky part: I must partition /dev/sda as well. I can backup everything to /dev/sdb. What is the recommended course of action here? Make sdb active and boot it? That would give me all the time I need to deal with sda. Then reverse again. Any backup of /dev/sda will be outdated soon (running system)Rescue DVD only offers parted-1.9.0
Question 1. Does gparted etc. just write to the MBR? Question 2. Is this the only record of the partition table? Question 3. How do i find the sectors that the partitions occupy?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running a Debian homeserver, with a 3-disk (1GB each) raid 5 array using mdadm (the OS is on a separate disk).Now, smartmontools noticed some bad sectors on one of the disks, and I'm not sure what to do next (except for backup of valuable data).I found some articles on how to fix these sectors, but I'm unaware what the result on the whole array will be.
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