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[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Last week I released the blog post I mentioned previously. It's now in Finnish and English.

I have an old netbook from 2011 that I have used as my home server since 2017. It has a 1 TB SSD, and for some time it had weird problems such as "Remounting filesystem read-only" and "EXT4-fs error", usually leading to crashes. After rebooting, Ubuntu's boot screen would not always appear. According to SMART, the drive was however all fine. At first I replaced the file system's journal and ran fsck. That wasn't enough, and the problems persisted. I was about to RMA the SSD, when I put Gparted Live on an USB stick and used that for fixing the file system. And it worked, now the home server has worked all fine for over three days!

[–] Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Two thoughts in case unexplicable stuff happens again:

  • SMART doesn't detect all possible errors, especially not on SSDs. (It was originally designed as an early-warning system for mechanical failures on spinning rust drives, and later somewhat expanded.)
  • A faulty RAM chip can cause all sorts of subtle (and not-so-subtle) mayhem but is often overlooked as a possible cause for disk troubles. If in doubt, MemTest86 is your friend!
[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I even ran MemTest86 and it showed things to be all fine. I recently bought new memory (2 GB) for the netbook.