Hi Ralph, >> Is it worth reformatting an SSD when fsck says it can’t fix catalog >> issues? > > The precise error would aid my Googling. :-)
Yes, I have tried googling, but nothing came up for the 5 digit negative error code!! -69842 > 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. Unfortunately it’s apple’s APFS, seems less known about at present. > 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. Ok thanks. > 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. Ok I’ll look into that. Ta -- 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
