24 Sep
2019
24 Sep
'19
11:11 p.m.
On 9/25/19 11:56 AM, Frédéric wrote:
Check that the drive actually is faulty before discarding it. Filesystem corruptions can happen without it being the drive's fault.
I did force fsck but it did not seem to do anything or it is so quick that I did not see anything. Anyway to perform a deep check?
I put the disk in a USB3 box and bought a new one. I know that SSD disks loose memory with time. I wonder how this works and I thought that maybe if I reformat the disk, I will be able to use it again.
I don't recall if you mentioned the model of SSD you have. I wonder if it has SMART capability.
What is the output of
sudo smartctl --all /dev/sdX
where X is the device identifier.
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