On Wed, 07 Jul 2021 17:19:15 +0100 mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ran badblocks on partition which reported > "488251288 bad blocks found" > which seems excessive. > Might I think that there is something amiss with the USB/SATA adapter > thing ? Yeah, that sounds fishy. I'd run "fdisk -l" on the device file (/dev/sdX) and see if that's reasonable. If it does, try "fsck -N" on each partition and see if those results look reasonable. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/