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Removing a disk on an Ubuntu machine
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Phil Holmes |
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Removing a disk on an Ubuntu machine |
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Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:52:10 +0000 |
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The 2TB disk I used as an archive of GUB builds was reported to be failing by
the BIOS SMART monitor. I managed to boot into the OS, but any attempt to read
from the disk was paralysingly slow. I thought the best bet was to take it out
and possibly read it with a USB interface. Successfully did that and confirmed
that it was essentially unusable - very slow reads.
Booted the system up. No go. It reported a fail and directed me to read the
boot logfile. This seemed to show that it was still expecting that disk.
Tried umount but had no effect. After a fair amount of hunting, I found a page
advising editing etc/fstab. Used Nano to try that, and #'d out the apparently
offending entry. It now boots. Seems a bit of a duff system that can't work
out that a disk that isn't there should be ignored. On Windows swapping disks
in and out causes no problems at all.
That's another hour or so of my life gone.
--
Phil Holmes
- Removing a disk on an Ubuntu machine,
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