On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:27:45AM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I use Dapper at the present.

[snip]

> Could someone please provide me with some
> information about what this may mean?

I would try using smartctl something like 

smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sda -T permissive
smartctl -d sat /dev/sda --all -T permissive

(just saw this oer in debian-user)

> 
> The drive is only about 14 months old and the
> motherboard about a year older.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any assistance provided.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> *******************
> df -h
> Filesystem            Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2              20G  8.2G   11G  45% /
> varrun                689M  152K  689M   1% /var/run
> varlock               689M  4.0K  689M   1% /var/lock
> udev                  689M  128K  689M   1% /dev
> devshm                689M     0  689M   0% /dev/shm
> lrm                   689M   19M  671M   3%
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-52-386/volatile
> /dev/hda3             438G  304G  113G  74% /home
> /dev/hdb1             147G   88G   52G  64% /video
> 
> 
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