On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:46:02AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Yesterday I was getting random I/O errors for stuff as simple as clear (to > clear a terminal), > and I got one for halt, even (I manually shut the machine off, and rebooted) > haven't seen the problem since then but things are sluggish and weird. > Is this a warning I should heed? > This is on a brand new (3 days) Jessie (8.5) install on an hdd that > previously had a Win7 installation and a large storage partition which I was > having difficulty mounting on another jessie install on another hdd in this > same machine. > I put /home on it's own partition and rsynced the /home from the other > jessie install, and now that one (the older one) won't boot without going to > emergency mode and fscking the disk (haven't even begun to diagnose that,but > I'm beginning to worry that both hdds are either done, or about to be.
Go make a backup of everything you care about, today. Copy to a new disk, check it, then disconnect and label your backup. After that, go look at /var/log/dmesg for error messages; copy them and show them to us. -dsr-