[Devil-Linux-discuss] DL 1.2.10 with hard disk going slow...

[Dom <dl...@ed...>]

My DL-based samba server has worked like a dream for several years, now
it is on a serious go slow. Also I seem to have a lost an LVM logical
volume /var/data (filesystem ext2) - at boot there are messages
something like this:
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fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /.../devil-linux/data
Could this be a zero-length partition?
Mounting /var/data mount: you must specify the filesystem type [FAILED]
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But AFAIK I have never used /var/data so this shouldn't matter. The
other LVs (/home, /var/log, /opt, swap) seem to load OK but there are
usually transaction replays on /home (which is the important one with
the data) and /var/log.

And the samba server is running very slow. It has always been fast
before though I noticed a couple of months ago that it was occasionally
very slow accessing one sub-folder which had some very large files in it.

I have a very simple setup and haven't made any significant changes
recently. What is happening? My current theory is that the hard disk is
failing. I plan to (try to) migrate my data to a new RAID 1 two-disk
array and hope this gives me back the performance and gives better
protection in the event of failure.

But I am far out of my depth here. If anyone has any suggestions I would
be grateful to hear them!

Dom