Filesystem corruption

[Volker Wysk]

Am Dienstag, den 25.06.2019, 22:00 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via
ubuntu-users:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 21:07:06 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > I guess, I don't have to run the SMART daemon, do I?
> 
> On Ubuntu installing the package smartmontools automatically enables
> smartd. Running
> 
>   systemctl status smartd.service
> 
> does show the status. 

This doesn't show anything suspicious. "journalctl -u smartd" doesn't
either.

> On Linux distros that automatically enable
> smartd, I disable it manually. However, to use smartctl, there is no
> need to run smartd.
> 
> In addition to what compdoc already mentioned, even if all attributes
> should be ok, the HDD could be broken. The systemctl output for the
> attributes for almost all HDDs that failed in my machines was ok.
>
> I can't comment on your corrupted files. In my experiences, if a HDD
> is
> broken, you hear unexpected noises and/or performance, not only HDD
> performance, but als GUI performance slows down rapidly.

I don't have anything like this. The GUI performance dropped somewhat,
but that seems to be due to switching vom KDE to Gnome. Nothing
serious.

> I'm seldom using GUI file managers, usually I'm using command line.
> Fish HDDs tend to cause input/output errors. At the beginning they
> happen very seldom and in the end they always happen.

You mean "Fishy"?

> 
> I don't know if this applies to SSDs, too. For the integrated drives
> I
> completely migrated from HDDs to SSDs, but I don't have experience
> with
> dying SSDs yet. At least I doubt that SSDs will make strange noises.

My HDD is 3,5 years old. The SSD is 1,5 years old. This doesn't sound
very old, does it?


Now i'm wondering if I should buy a new hard disk, before I reinstall
Ubuntu...

And I wonder if my backup is corrupted too. Probably...


Bye and thanks,
Volker