On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 07:29 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Josh Smith said: > > Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk. > > Definitely. No operating system in the world has mental telepathy. Every > OS boots based on the data the disk gives it, and if the disk doesn’t > give the right data, no amount of Open Source Magic™ or Reality > Distortion Fields™ are going to make it boot. > > > Lately Linux is being having trouble loading taking a long time to load > > up. Even when in the / dir it was problems. > > > > sda1= 150 bad sectors > > sdb1= 392 bad sectors > > sdc1= 238 bad sectors > > Weird that you have bad sectors on each drive. Unless all three drives > are really old and decrepit.
It's wired i have only had the drives of over a bout 6 months. in the System tab there was a SMART funtion in there. > > What did you use to generate that data? > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
