On 20/03/2019 22.51, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [03-20-19 17:29]:
I don't know if sda is the disk that holds the EFI partition, but I suspect it is, because I see that /home is sda7.
EFI is /dev/sda1 and it is vfat
ran fsck.vfat -r /dev/sda1
nothing repaired and cannot capture fsck screen output
disk is bad?
output from smartctl is http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~paka/smartctl.txt
Yes, disk is bad. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 032 032 000 Old_age Always - 27335 Disk is old. 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4104 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 001 001 000 Old_age Offline - 255 And those figures are bad. Notice that the "THRESH" is zero, and the values start at 100. When they drop down to threshold, replace fast. I would power off, get a replacement, then, if you wish, dd?rescue to clone it if you wish. With a backup, you may attempt recovery of the disk: I would try: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/FAULTY bs=16M oflag=direct status=progress then run smartctl test=long on it. Extract the results (-a), and repeat hours later. Maybe repeat the dd and the long test. Observe if the realloacated count increase from test to test, which would indicate that deterioration continues. If stable, you may use the disk for offline storage. At 27000 hours and 2.5 inches I have my doubts about using it in the laptop. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)