If you want to run fsck on a drive that is mounted, you can unmount it first (as long as it isn't the root partition).<br>If you want to run it on the root then you will have to use a live distribution like Knoppix.<br>
<br>If you have issues/worries about the drive then its worth setting it to check at boot time in the fstab (it won't hurt to do this just slow down booting on the occasions that the checks run).<br><br>If you want to look at grub2 in a less heavy way, there is a GUI tool (I have read good things about it but not used it): <a href="https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer">https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer</a><br>
<br>There is also some good documentation (prepare for a lot of reading) on the ubuntu wiki: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 31 January 2012 22:24, Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klug-mail@richayres2.plus.com">klug-mail@richayres2.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 31/01/12 17:45, David Halliday wrote:
</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">Just some quick sanity checks (don't take them
personally):<br>
<ol>
<li>This message comes from when Linux is booting and not the
BIOS booting.</li>
<li>The BIOS set-up on the machine recognises the disk.</li>
<li>If possible S.M.A.R.T. checking is enables and hasn't fired
any errors for the disk (possible with old disks).</li>
<li>All physical connections have been given the usual extra
wiggle/push to tighten.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>A couple of pointers/questions:<br>
</p>
</div><ol>
<li>What distribution are you using? ----- Ubuntu 10.04 server<br>
</li>
</ol>
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<ol>
<li>Have you configured the disks to be checked at boot time?
(See pass-num: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab</a>
) ----------No<br>
</li>
<li>What is the file system being used? (EXT3/EXT4 etc...)
-------EXT4<br>
</li><div class="im">
<li>At what point/which application/process/log gives that error
message?<br>
</li>
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The exact error message is " fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2<br>
This is followed by /dev/sad1 clean xxxxxx files xxx blocks <br>
samefor sda3<br>
These are the root and home partitions of first disc.<br>
The next line is "The disc drive for /mnt is not ready yet or not
present<br>
Continue to wait or Press to skip mounting or M for manual
recovery?<br>
Is this something connected with grub2 ? How can I initiate the
fsck for sdb1 which seems to need to be done before mounting or am I
completely on the wrong track. I am not sure where I should put this
(Don't Say it - I know what you are thinking), presumably somewhere
in the sdb1 entry. <br>
I have tried all your other suggestions for which much thanks <br><div class="im">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 31 January 2012 16:27, Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klug-mail@richayres2.plus.com" target="_blank">klug-mail@richayres2.plus.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi All<br>
I have been having trouble in mounting a newly installed Hard
drive. I have edited /etc/fstab and the disc's (I know CLI etc
require the Yankee spelling -disk-but outside of that I spell
in English) UUID, mount point etc.<br>
When I boot up I get the Message " Drive may be slow to
respond or not present" and gives the option of mounting
manually."<br>
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mount /mnt /dev/hdb1 is successful and I can access the
contents of the drive with ls /mnt so disc does exist and will
mount O.K.<br>
Is there anything else I should be doing? As you know my
machines are old but I have never had this problem before even
with this disc on another box. Any suggestions please?<br>
Rich<br>
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