All is well again. (Whew!) Having made a backup of / to ~/, I shut down, then booted to a USB stick with Xubuntu 17.10 (the only bootable USB device I had). Once it was running I opened the Gparted GUI and discovered that / and ~/ were now /dev/sdc1 and -2, not mounted. Then I tried e2fsck -p on both but it reported they were clean. 'WTH?' I thought.
I shut down again and rebooted to my regular installation. The boot process proceeded normally and quickly, without errors. Here I sit with everything running as it should - external drives are appearing as they normally do, with / no longer mounted under /media/jjj. While /dev/sdb (Crucial mSATA, 5 years, 2 months old) is apparently OK, the Smart Data reports several parameters that are 'pre-fail' and all the rest are 'old-age.' Yet the Smart Data says the disk is OK. So what the heck happened here? Could it be a software glitch in the OS? Is there a new moon tonight? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
