On 1/14/25 19:42, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi David,
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 07:28:28PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
I suggest that you unmount any filesystems on the SSD and then fill the SSD
with random bytes using dd(1).
If the purpose of this is to check that the full capacity of the NVMe is
working, the f3 tool that is already packaged in Debian makes this job
much more straightforward.
Thank you for pointing out the f3 suite. I agree that purpose-built
tools should be easier and should produce better results than improvised
shell commands::
https://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/
But OP's problem is more likely to be some issue with the ntfs-3g driver
or the NTFS filesystem on the NVMe.
It will be interesting to see what the root cause issue(s) are once they
have been identified. I think that validating the hardware with f3
tools is a reasonable step at this point.
David
