[Discuss] sluggish linux hard drive

[Andrew Burgess]

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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