Re: Corrupt file system: Replace hard disk or not?

2017-09-23 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, Actually, I got the SMART data from Gnome's Disk Utility. It gives me the number of (relocated) bad sectors found ever. I do have certain issues with my ATI graphics card, and given the coincidence, it might have written DMA data where it shouldn't. But as I mentioned before, I

Re: Corrupt file system: Replace hard disk or not?

2017-09-22 Thread Borissh1983
I'm assuming you atcually had run smart scan to do set the counters (few hours per scan), what you describe sounds like something caused by an X issue - there had been several different bugs both in X itself and in some DE's that made your "screen freeze" (the workaround was to switch to a

Re: Corrupt file system: Replace hard disk or not?

2017-09-22 Thread Ori Berger
This could be the result of anything from a power glitch, strong RF transmission from another device next to the computer, bad power supply or bad memory. The hard disk itself is not more suspect than any other component in your system. Personally, I've twice had data mysteriously corrupted

Re: Corrupt file system: Replace hard disk or not?

2017-09-22 Thread Omer Zak
Once in a while, there is some rare Linux kernel bug which has the effect of corrupting filesystems. Maybe it is what has bitten you? How to check: 1. Which version of the kernel is running on the PC? 2. Are there any reports of filesystem corruption for this version of the kernel? Since you are

Corrupt file system: Replace hard disk or not?

2017-09-22 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, TL;DR: My hard disk's filesystem was corrupt, but the SMART statistics is perfect. Should I replace the hard disk? Full version: It seems like one of my hard disks has passed its own premature Yom Kippur verdict. Rebooting my computer this morning, it failed to mount, saying