Hi Stephen, > Is it worth reformatting an SSD when fsck says it can’t fix catalog > issues?
The precise error would aid my Googling. :-) There's many fsck's, one for each group of filesystem types. If this is a HFS-based one then fsck might have an `-Rc' option, or `-r', to re-build the catalogue tree, if it can. Of course, it might have a `-r' that does something completely different, so you need a man page that matches what's being run. Are you asking if the SSD must be duff and on its way out for this problem to occur, and thus not worth continuing to use because more problems will follow? If so, I don't know. smartctl(8), part of `smartmontools', will show SMART data from the drive, and if a rust device is on the way out then counts of things like `unrecoverable sectors' tend to creep upwards. SSDs comply with the same interface and provide some SSD-specific stats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-06-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
