[Discuss] sluggish linux hard drive

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Back up the volume, unmount the volume, and then do a fsck on it.

Peter


Andrew Burgess wrote:
> unmount the volume and then do a fsck on it.
> 
> 
> David Lee wrote:
> 
>> Good evening
>>
>> Our rather big photo printing machine at work (Japan Camera) has 
>> started to go wonky.
>> Our tech support in Vancouver told us the hard drive in  said machine 
>> could be getting sluggish. He didn't know too much about defragging 
>> the drive, so I tried myself.
>> I took it out and put it in another windows computer, and it couldn't 
>> be recognized.
>> So for some reason, I put in a Linux live cd (everyone carries a spare 
>> cd in their backpacks, right?)
>> It turns out to be a linux drive with about 7 partitions.
>>
>> I thought linux drives didn't need to be defragged, so I'm at a loss 
>> on how to clean it up.
>> Is there a checkdisk equivalent. Something I can do to fix. It could 
>> be getting old.
>> They don't seem to be in too much of a hurry to send a tech.
>> I was hoping I could transfer the info to a new drive. Hows the best 
>> way to do this?
>>
>> David
>>
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