On 1/29/2014 14:37, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Jan 29, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Don Levey <fedora-list(a)the-leveys.us>
wrote:
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>
> 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.
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> 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