-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/2009 11:27 PM, Frederick Abrams wrote: > Hiya, > > Laptop Specs Attached (lshw) > > My PC was running perfect not a single error and then after i rebooted > the PC was working extemely slowly i checked /var/log/messages and i get > the below output. > // snip // > It might be a good idea to see what the SMART diagnostics can do As root, in a very wide terminal window smartctl -a /dev/sda will get you a status report on the disk. Look at the rightmost columns for the actual reported values. Then, run a long selftest smartctl -t long /dev/sda Finally, check the results some time after smartctl's estimated time to run the test smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda For more, see 'man smartctl' - -- Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrsaXgACgkQeERILVgMyvDXyQCfVgV9cRUSHnrxPF0nHyE96Cbr gfcAn2Dq+p7JP4h82gxil/zO/T659uN8 =QAJr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines