1 is reserved by Windows boot recovery, 1 for windows 7 system, 1 for GNU/Linux. 4 partitions I am using other then them 3 of them are NTFS and 1 is EXT4. 1 partition is for Linux swap I think.
@BasileStarynkevitch How do I find the manufacturing date?
If you use your laptop for something more interesting (perhaps writing school reports with LaTeX, ...) Linux is enough, but I don't understand why you need so many disk partitions
But I would imagine that if you have a rotating disk (not an SSD) having a lot of partitions might wear out the hardware more quickly. This is just an intuition
With many partitions your disk head has to move more.
You need to use smartctl with an otherwise inactive laptop.
I upgraded my Debian from 9th version to 10th when Debian 10 was officially released. Since I upgraded to Debian 10, I am getting following messages while booting:
[ 11.008027] pstore: Using compression: deflate
[ 11.008597] pstore: crypto_comp_decompress failed, ret = -22!
[ 11.008666] ps...
If you are scared of doing that alone, go quickly to a shop
So what, it means that your HDD is broken since more than a year.
What is the economical value of the data on your laptop?
How many hours of work do you lose when the HDD is totally broken?
Or is your laptop just a toy to play games?
Why do you own a laptop? What for?
I personally would recommend replacing the HDD with an SSD disk.
SSD disks are becoming cheap (e.g. 50€ in France) and are much more mechanically reliable (less sensitive to tiny mechanical shocks, e.g. when you transport your laptop)
On the other hand, SSD disks are rumored to break entirely at once.
I really would like you to explain in written English why do you own a laptop.
And what happens to you once the laptop does not work at all (because the HDD is completely broken)
My intuition and past but recent (a year ago) experience suggests that your HDD could be completely non-working in a few days or weeks.
Once you've got any bad sectors messages...
Hence the question you still did not answer: what will happen to you once your HDD is not working at all (and then your laptop cannot even boot)
I have to leave. Good bye. Feel free to contact me by email to [email protected]
@BasileStarynkevitch I haven't lost any data. I use my laptop normally. It works fine. As I have said already, I don't play games. I use office-tools, browser, photo editing and everything that one does on unusual usage. The only problem I face (once in a month) is "PC becomes hang or unresponsive when system fails to read/write data on HDD and that time, I need to restart, check system drive and repair boot loader. That's all. And it starts working fine"
You haven't lost any data yet. Wait a little time, and you'll lose some or all of it.
Hence my question: what will happen to you once your HDD is not working at all ? (I would appreciate an answer in written English; if privacy is a concern, contact me by email to [email protected])
My intuition is that in a few weeks, your HDD will be completely broken. I hope for you to be wrong
"it starts working fine" is a probable illusion. You certainly means, "it seems to work fine"
Some level of bad sectors is normal and designed to be handled invisibly these days; actually seeing repeated errors is a clear sign the disk is failing
I don't think I've ever succeeded in using a custom command with find. That \; looks super weird to me, which is probably related
Now that I see that it makes a lot of sense to protect that backslash from bash itself, but I'm pretty sure that's one point that trips me up all the time. I've learned to just resort to -name searches...
I upgraded my Debian from 9th version to 10th when Debian 10 was officially released. Since I upgraded to Debian 10, I am getting following messages while booting:
[ 11.008027] pstore: Using compression: deflate
[ 11.008597] pstore: crypto_comp_decompress failed, ret = -22!
[ 11.008666] ps...
