nautilus freezing up

[jmadero]

Hi All,
Nautilus is freezing up on me often and I'm having to force quit it. This has happened despite two reinstalls (for other reasons) in the past two weeks. I'm suspecting an I/O issue but no clue how to check it or fix it. Any ideas?

[b2bwild]

Strongly because of disk I/O error or bad sectors.

You can fix up bad sectors on disk using badblocks and mkfs

Badblocks is a utility which stores a list of bad sectors in a file.

Use mkfs with -l option and specify the file then create filesystem, and filesystem will ignore those disk sectors giving you a clean performance.

# badblocks -svwnf -b block-size -o output_file device last-block start-block

Note: while using this command directly, specify your block size carefully.

# mkfs -V -ct fstype -l output_file /dev/something