On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 15:57, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 15:05, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I had another thought: if you care curious about where the problem > > is, maybe you could run some read-only command that reads > > every part of your disk, and see if it gets stuck anywhere. > > For example: > > # find / -xdev -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \; > > On second thoughts, I think my suggested command likely won't > "get stuck" when it hits the error, so it won't be very useful. > > Maybe better to hide the stdout from md5sum: > # find junk -xdev -type f -exec md5sum '{}' >/dev/null \;
To be more precise, that hides the stdout from both md5sum and find, but I don't think that matters to the goal.