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   John Forkosh  wrote:   
   > root  wrote:   
   >> <>   
   >> As I mention in the previous response, the problem seems   
   >> to have been in the drive. It was a 1TB Samsung 870 EVO, with   
   >> two equal partitions.   
   >> <>   
   >> Thanks again Rich.   
   >   
   > Isn't that a "SMART" disk? See  man smartctl  and the disk   
   > itself should tell you if it's okay, or else what's wrong   
   > with it. I had a 2TB hdd fail a while ago, but a week or two   
   > before it died, messages started displaying during boot   
   > that warned me it was about to die. Gave me plenty of time   
   > to do several extra backups of everything (and  rsync -c  them   
   > against earlier backups just to double-check), and to buy   
   > a replacement hdd. Hadn't been aware of SMART and smartctl   
   > before that, but now I regularly use smartctl to check disks.   
      
   Yes it is/was a smart disk, and the only errors reported   
   were from years ago, and all those were checksum errors   
   on booting. It only cost me $100 for a news SSD, and they   
   are always useful. See me my previous post revealing   
   that, most likely so far, it was a motherboard problem.   
      
   Thanks for responding.   
      
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