WARNING: Your hard drive is failing

Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantowicz at osdf.com.pl
Wed Jul 24 19:25:58 UTC 2013


On 24.07.2013 21:09, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 07/24/2013 11:57 AM, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> I saw this once, with a portable hard drive. It happened when I had the
>> drive plugged in while booting, and unplugged it later. It didn't
>> realize
>> that it was okay for the drive to be unplugged afterwards. I didn't
>> check if
>> there is an existing bug report.
>
> Did you always unmount the drive before unplugging it?  If not, that
> might explain the warnings.

I always do it. Sometimes I do sync from the console and then unmount
hard drive (just to be extra sure). I did it the same way in Fedora 17
and had no such warnings.


Mateusz Marzantowicz


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