Sam MacDonald wrote: > My Hard Disk light on my laptop keeps flashing, like every second. > It did not do this until yesterday. > X Windows is much slower then it was early yesterday. > I was working with Gimp and it just started to get slow. > Evolution is getting really slow as well it's even hung once. > > I'm thinking I may need to run a file system check of some kind. > Any advice would be wonderful. Sam - you should grab and install the smartmontools package: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ (for some reason, the main site seems to be down. You can probably get a binary rpm/deb/ebuild/etc) Once installed, run the following: $ smartctl -a /dev/hdX or whatever your hard disk device is. Smart will spit out all kinds of diagnostic info about the drive. With smart, you can also tell the drive to do a self-diagnostic check. Read the man page for more details. Hope this helps! -Erik _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list