hi list I have a problem where files recently downloaded go missing and it happened over 3 times and on patition/s with enough available space I want to verify it 1 more time before knowing hdd is failing for sure
for example newly downloaded videos via yt-dlp go missing, torrent files go missing, all of them recent, and I didn't touch them because I know I restarted torrent client a few times and every time no Missing File error was shown and I didn't go in that torrent directory for many days so what gives? is hdd failing? but how do entire files go missing? maybe hdd metadata/header corruption of some kind? I did not do a fsck yet, will do it and report if anything new just so you know hdd is old and frequent read and write, mostly sequantial, but random too I tried searching internet, nothing of answer came in view
