Re: [SLE] Slow partition: how to check?

From: Jerry Feldman (gaf_at_blu.org)
Date: 01/27/05

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:30:18 -0500

    On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:07, Stan Glasoe wrote:

    > Could be the partition table or the partition itself is corrupt. It may
    > affect one or all partitions on a disk. Diagnosis is usually by
    > repartitioning and reformatting either the suspect partition or more
    > often the whole drive. I haven't found any useful diagnosis tool to
    > detect this condition other than repartitioning and reformatting and the
    > 'problem' isn't there any more.
    1 (dangerous) possibility is to record the information from the existing
    partition table (Starting and ending cylinders, partition type, et. al.).
    Then using a partition tool rebuild it. This should not affect the
    formatting of any of the partitions, and should clean up any corruption in
    the partition tables themselves.

    The reformatting of the offending partition should clean up that partition,
    but will delete all the data in that partition.

    Another thing that can cause slowness is bad blocks. Normally when a drive
    is formatted at the factory, the bad blocks are hidden from software. But,
    if there are some exposed bad blocks in your partition, your system could
    be slowed down by retries, etc. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
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