On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 11:06 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
Dollars to donuts, your disk's dying. Run smartctl on it, check the system logs, do some backups, check out your manufacturers return policy...
Adam: It's a brand new disk. I think what happened is that I was testing hibernate/suspend/poweroff stuff (because this is a laptop) and the repeated cycles led to some file system corruption, or I may have moved it from my desk to my bag before the disk and file system were completely shut down.
Ah, that would definitely be a possibility too, yup.