On Sunday, 13 September 2020 17:05:22 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 13/09/20 13:26, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > So I'm still left wondering what to do. I'm happy that the hardware isn't > > on the blink, anyway. > > Can you use gdisk to create a new partition in some empty space on the > disk, delete it again, and write a partition table? Basically anything > to get gdisk or gparted to actually write a new partition table (that > should be the same as the old one, of course).
Nice idea. Thanks. > If there are hidden problems that udisk or whatever is picking up on - > garbage data somewhere most likely - that's the most likely way of > clearing it. I used gdisk to create a new partition at the end of the disk, then rebooted so that the kernel would have the right disk layout. No change. Just before this started, I booted Win-10 on /dev/sdb and ran its update process. I don't use it for anything at the moment, just keeping it up to date in case I ever do. I do this most weeks, but is it possible that Win-10 tampered in some way that it hasn't before? I'm seeing these errors on /dev/ sda (which does have an NTFS partition) and /dev/nvme0n1 (which does not), but not on /dev/sdb. -- Regards, Peter.
