David Purton wrote:
Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does smartctl say about the health of your drive? smartctl -H /dev/sda
try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drivethe one I always look at first is the absolute value of "raw read errors" - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail, and its internal code is spending more and more time trying to read and re-read data off the media
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