[olug] Slow Boot of HPCompaq dc5800 Microtower GX162AV

[Justin Reiners]

I actually have a 6GB swap partition on my box, but I removed it from fstab
and disabled Swap. OS installs default swap to 1/2 RAM (Fedora, Ubuntu,
Centos, and others) calculate it in to the auto partitioning installs. I
have 12GB RAM in this host. To me, 6GB of unused space is worth losing, as
I have bigger fish to fry if the drive is full enough I have to worry about
it.

sda13 is nuts, I do give you that.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Damian Harouff <cekkent at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's actually a couple of other things that stand out to me:
>
> # 6 gigabytes of swap?
> # There's 12 other partitions on the disk before swap? (sda13)
>
> -Damian
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm with Dan. I'd check smart errors before anything else. I had an
> > encrypted drive go flaky and the system would take hours to boot. With no
> > IO errors present in the normal places.
> >
> > Look for old age.
> >
> > It is in the repo. smartmontools for fedora/centos. smartctl -a /dev/sda#
> >
> > Sent from my mobile device.
> > On Jun 9, 2015 10:45 PM, "Dan Linder" <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Off hand, I'd guess a failing hdd, but usually you'd see hdd
> > > errors...usually, but not always.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > > On Jun 9, 2015 9:51 PM, "Joseph Gulizia" <joseph.gulizia at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Slow Boot of HPCompaq dc5800 Microtower GX162AV
> > > >
> > > > The slow part of DMESG
> > > >
> > > > [    5.177769] usb 2-3: SerialNumber: AE7FHE0700001738
> > > > [   19.736125] Adding 5998588k swap on /dev/sda13.  Priority:-1
> > extents:1
> > > > across:5998588k FS
> > > >
> > > > GRUB comes up to prompt quickly:  "Attempting to boot from Hard
> Drive"
> > > > before Boot Options come up 2 minutes later.
> > > >
> > > > DMESG is long (500+ lines)
> > > >
> > > > Other commands to give more information?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Joe
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