On 18-09-15 20:49:43, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 09/15/18 18:28, stan wrote:
> It could still be a hard drive problem, where the installed OS
> resides. If there are bad locations in critical areas, it could be
> doing flaky things. Try running a non destructive check from the
> live
> session on the unmounted drive, e2fsck for ext2-4 filesystems.
> There's
> also a utility that gives the drive diagnostics, smartctl. Both have
> man pages, and the web is always there, too.
+
e2fsck /dev/sda1 reports clean, and it looks like smartctl is not
present.
Live systems allow installing software.
You can also read the entire disk. A bad sector will cause an error
and stop the read, so if this completes, the disk is working:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress
Do this for each drive (as shown by `ls /dev/sd?`). You can still use
the system while this is running.
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