Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

Steve Searle steve at stevesearle.com
Wed Jan 6 15:58:50 UTC 2010


Around 03:35pm on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 (UK time), Linuxguy123 scrawled:

> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 09:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> > 2010/1/6 Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ?   Does this sound like a
> > > kernel problem or is my hard drive failing ?
> > 
> > If your drive and BIOS supports S.M.A.R.T, then gnome-disk-utility
> > (palimpsest) will tell you the status of your drive..
> 
> I can't seem to find this utility in Fedora.   Can someone verify its
> spelling/existence ?

Its a gui utility.

$ palimpsest

gnome-disk-utility is the package name.

$ yum provides */palimpsest
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
updates/filelists_db                                     | 4.7 MB
01:56     
gnome-disk-utility-2.28.1-1.fc12.x86_64 : Disk management application
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/share/gnome/help/palimpsest
Filename    : /usr/share/omf/palimpsest
Filename    : /usr/bin/palimpsest



gnome-disk-utility-2.28.1-1.fc12.x86_64 : Disk management application
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/palimpsest

Steve

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