On 2024-02-03 06:21, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
Hello, I am wondering if this drive is failing. I ran a GSmartControl - extended test and no errors were detected that way. Noticing here on this machine with some of the journalctl -xb output shown in the following lines:
Feb 02 17:10:09 Thinkcentre-M57p kernel: fdisk: attempt to access beyond end of device sdb: rw=524288, sector=32768, nr_sectors = 8 limit=0
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There is no /dev/sdb device showing up in fdisk -l or lsblk -fs right now though so could it be an iteration of the past when possibly my (usb filing drive) was connected to the machine?
This is an error that happened when /dev/sdb was connected. Taking a guess, the size of the disk changed to "zero", so access failed. This may happen when removing an USB disk without telling the system.
Also I would like to ask you about all this information about COW and Btrfs. What's going on here with 'defragmenting' and 'scrubbing' in a generalized sense? What is a sign of the need for it? I've been experiencing a minor freeze for about 45 seconds to a minute after a powercycle and login but then things seem to clear up.
Huh, one question at a time, my single waken up neuron has gone paff! -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)