Input/output ERROR FC3
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 3 00:27:09 UTC 2005
KIMARIO FAWKES wrote:
> I attempted to run ls -1 /etc/mtab, I got
>
> ls: /etc/mtab: Input/output error
> ls: lsattr: No such file or directory
Worrying.
But that was "ls -l" not "ls -1" (minus lower case L, not number 1)
and
lsattr /etc/mtab
no separate ls command.
I'd also run memtest (boot from the install CD and type in memtest at
the first prompt) and (in Fedora), as root,
smartctl -H /dev/hda
smartctl -l error /dev/hda
smartctl -t short /dev/hda
which will do a low-level check on the disk: wait a minute for that to
run, then do
smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
to see the results.
That should check for hardware errors. Running
touch /forcefsck
and rebooting should (take a bit longer, but) make sure that the root
filesystem is in good shape, too.
James.
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