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Its time to say goodbye to the Renault Megane RT Sport DTi:

First registered in 1999 old age has suddenly started to catch up on it.

The MOT was due and I knew it needed:

• Driver side passenger door fixing (wouldn’t unlock)
• New Windscreen washer motor
• 4 new Tyres
• Full wheel alignment.

Also it was wallowing going round bends – OK I know its a French car so it tends to wallow like a warthog but it was getting noticeably worse and I suspect the roll arm bushes were shot.

Add to that the fact that I’ve got through 3 front wheel bearings in the past 18 months (probably due to the hubs starting to wear out), and that there was corrosion on the rear wheel arches which was creeping onto the cills and it was really starting to look like a bottomless pit.

So it’s being scrapped and is being replaced by:

Which is a Volvo S60 D5

I use Akismet on this site to trap spam. But even if I didn’t and I just relied on manually approving comments what sort of stupid idiot pays people to post rubbish like the following:

Obviously its junk and would never see the light of day on anyone’s site if they have even a single brain cell in their skull.

Capita – that company who the UK Government think can be trusted to run so much of our infrastructure can’t apparently stop their own network from being used to attempt to hack servers:

31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:43 +0000] "GET /wp/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:43 +0000] "GET /Wp/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12141 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:44 +0000] "GET /wordpress/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:44 +0000] "GET /Wordpress/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12260 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:44 +0000] "GET /test/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:45 +0000] "GET /Test/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12175 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:45 +0000] "GET /site/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:45 +0000] "GET /Site/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12175 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:45 +0000] "GET /old/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:46 +0000] "GET /Old/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12158 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:46 +0000] "GET /shop/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:46 +0000] "GET /Shop/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12175 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:47 +0000] "GET /store/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:47 +0000] "GET /Store/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12192 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:47 +0000] "GET /blog/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:48 +0000] "GET /Blog/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12175 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:48 +0000] "GET /blogs/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:48 +0000] "GET /Blogs/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12192 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:49 +0000] "GET /forum/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:01:22:49 +0000] "GET /Forum/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 12192 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /wp/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 293 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /wordpress/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 300 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /test/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /site/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /old/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 294 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /shop/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /store/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 296 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /blog/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /blogs/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 296 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"
31.222.208.86 - - [03/Dec/2014:08:20:33 +0000] "GET /forum/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 296 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)"

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#smartctl -t short /dev/sdb

then

#smartctl -a /dev/sdb

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50556 1132724807
# 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 50556 490221916
# 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50556 490221916
# 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50555 490221916
# 5 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 50555 490221917
# 6 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50554 490221916
# 7 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50554 490221916
# 8 Offline Aborted by host 90% 50554 –
# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 42680 –
#10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 42 –

#fdisk -lu /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x447d8526

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 1953520064 976760001 83 Linux

root@kodaly:~# tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1 | grep Block
Block count: 244190000
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768

use the lba_of_sector and the start offset in the following calculation

#echo “(1132724807-63)*512/4096” | bc -l

141590593.00000000000000000000

#debugfs
debugfs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
debugfs: open /dev/sdb1
debugfs: testb 141590593
Block 141590593 not in use

if it reports as not in use block it out then :

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4096 count=1 seek=141590593

# sync

then

# smartctl -t long /dev/sdb

If it reports in use then

Block 141623865 marked in use
debugfs: icheck 141623865
Block Inode number
141623865 35397635

debugfs: ncheck 35397635
Inode Pathname
35397635 /shares/stuff/Steves Lapto/backups/myers/investigations/Everyman/media/Audio/hitmike.wav

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