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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?



On Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:52:26 PM Albretch Mueller wrote:
> $ date; fdisk -l; date
> Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012
> ...
> Thu Sep 27 22:48:59 UTC 2012

Failing boot sector? Some other sector it has to read is failing? Check the 
logs. Try (from smartmontools):
  smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep -i "sector|realloc"


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