On 17/12/2025 10:06, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
the advice is 'So it looks like the |ff55| UUID that it's complaining
about is sda1, presumably the / partition'.
In Partition Magic, only sda1 is acknowledged, except in in the tool
'TestDisc' (see below).
sda1 is quite possibly the / partition containing the /boot directory;
unless you have a separate /boot partition, but that's been out of
favour in recent years. That sda2 is /home also suggests sda1 is /.
According to TestDisc, running in Parted Magic, sda is the EFI
partition, although it doesn't show up in either GParted or the KDE
Partition manager.
Since I have run extended SMART tests on both of my discs with no
error
This just means the disk is happy to return bytes for each of the
logical sectors on the disk, not that the bytes make sense as
filesystems, or that the files within make sense for booting.
Do SMART Extended Tests are not really much use unless the disc is
physically damaged?
I'd suggest re-reading the thread given what you've learnt so far.
- You can boot from something else and check if the, now unused,
filesystems are happy with their data using an fsck.
- There were a couple of links dealing with your particular error
message.
And there might be other things I've forgotten.
While I was booted into Parted Magic, I tried to run fsck on both sda
and sda1. Nothing much seemed to happen. What should I expect?
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