Re: clug-talk Digest, Vol 131, Issue 5

Mint 17 is on sda5, which is ext4
Ubuntu should be on sda7, also ext4.
I have very little time to work on this and have to hunt for my boot dvds.
Backups have been done.

Output of lsblk

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 298.1G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0   1.5G  0 part
├─sda3   8:3    0     1K  0 part
├─sda4   8:4    0    21G  0 part
├─sda5   8:5    0 173.6G  0 part /
├─sda6   8:6    0   3.9G  0 part
└─sda7   8:7    0  98.1G  0 part
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

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> From: Noah Tellin <[email protected]>
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> Subject: [clug-talk] inodes, fsck and read-only file systems, Oh my!
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> My Lenovo has two operating systems dual-booted, Mint 17 and Ubuntu 64 bit.
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> Lately, I am getting read-only file system issues and other problems
> on boot up, when running Mint, which is my main OS and where my
> development server is located. I don't seem to get those problems when
> running Ubuntu. Should I just do a reinstall of Mint and see if that
> fixes the problem, or go for a full hard drive replacement?
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> Temporarily I am copying files over to the Ubuntu side and doing
> massive backups with backups of the backups.
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> Ralph
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> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:38:40 -0600
> From: Viorel Tabara <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] inodes, fsck and read-only file systems, Oh
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> On 10/27/2015 05:29 PM, Noah Tellin wrote:
>> Lately, I am getting read-only file system issues and other problems
>> on boot up, when running Mint, [...] I don't seem to get those problems when
>> running Ubuntu.
>
> What filesystem and on what block device? It would help to post an 'lsblk'
> output from both environments and indicate the filesystem having issues.
>
>> Should I just do a reinstall of Mint and see if that fixes the problem, or go
>> for a full hard drive replacement?
>
> Those issues are usually signs of a failing hardware. The kernel should provide
> some info -- do the system log show (dmesg, /var/log/{messages,syslog},
> journalctl) any errors?
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> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:52:58 -0600
> From: Gustin Johnson <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] inodes, fsck and read-only file systems, Oh
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> What file system is this?  Have you run fsck with the -c and -f flags?  Can
> you boot this device with a cd or USB and then check the disk
> (systemrescuecd is my current favorite rescue distro)?  Running "badblocks
> -svv" (those are two v's as in victor, the "w" will perform a destructive
> write test) can give you a more thorough test of the disk.
>
> Before doing anything, backup your data.
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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Viorel Tabara <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> On 10/27/2015 05:29 PM, Noah Tellin wrote:
>> > Lately, I am getting read-only file system issues and other problems
>> > on boot up, when running Mint, [...] I don't seem to get those problems
>> when
>> > running Ubuntu.
>>
>> What filesystem and on what block device? It would help to post an 'lsblk'
>> output from both environments and indicate the filesystem having issues.
>>
>> > Should I just do a reinstall of Mint and see if that fixes the problem,
>> or go
>> > for a full hard drive replacement?
>>
>> Those issues are usually signs of a failing hardware. The kernel should
>> provide
>> some info -- do the system log show (dmesg, /var/log/{messages,syslog},
>> journalctl) any errors?
>>
>> --
>> Viorel
>>
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