On 1/29/2014 14:37, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Don Levey <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > ... >> >> I was wondering something similar; perhaps there is physical >> damage? > > This should give a quick idea: smartctl -x /dev/sdX > > This will take longer but fully reads the entire surface of the drive > and some other tests: > > smartctl -t long /dev/sdX > > ... I believe I have these tools; I'll try this tonight. ... > >> But now another question arises: Since the (previous) /boot >> partition was fairly small, is there any reason not to just abandon >> it, remove /boot from fstab, and install the kernel into the /boot >> subdirectory of /? > > As long as / isn't on LVM or raid5, I usually recommend this anyway. This is RAID-1, hardware controlled, so that should work. Looks like this will be a little easier; I should be able to afford the 190MB I would lose. Thank you again for your help! -Don -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
