[plug] hangs (hung) on boot

[Craig Ringer]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:40, Rob Dunne wrote:
> Hi list,
>         my machine hung when checking a partition on boot
> (/usr/local on /dev/hda5). I restarted it 
> and told it not to check the disks.

It's pretty unusual for a hang to occur. If you continue to see
something like this after running fsck.ext3, I strongly recommend
running a hard disk test with the manufacturer's disk tools (or with
smartctl).

> This stopped the problem but I think I should unmount /usr/local and
> run Disk Doctor (fskdisk or something) on it but I cant find any
> information on this.

First, make a backup if you have anything important stored in the
filesystem. I doubt it, as it's /usr/local, but just in case. Of course,
you'd have backups already anyway...

I'm assuming the ext3 filesystem:

# umount /usr/local/
# fsck.ext3 -f -n

That will do a read-only scan and check the filesystem. If it doesn't
scream blue murder, run:

# fsck.ext3 -f -p

to "preen" (scan and repair) the filesystem.

--
Craig Ringer