Basile Starynkevitch

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Discussion on question by riorio: Ref…

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Jul 27, 2021 18:05

Can you afford the risk of her quitting her job and find another employer? You could also send her to software related conferences..... or pay her some training to new technologies / software....

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Basile Starynkevitch

May 1, 2021 20:56

You should ask your advisor. He knows the rules, which are country specific.

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Basile Starynkevitch

Jan 24, 2021 17:39

In which country is this? What legal framework?

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Basile Starynkevitch

Jan 22, 2021 12:23

Mount options (e.g. in /etc/fstab) are also very relevant

Basile Starynkevitch

Jan 22, 2021 12:23

Human mistakes or physical events (fire, loss of electric power, dust inside your computer) are also affecting the reliability of your system. Your data will be lost, the good question is how probably, and what will happen to you when it does. I would use the SSD for the root file system at least

Basile Starynkevitch

Jan 22, 2021 12:23

BTW, some contributors to refpersys.org are living in India and have practical experience related to your concerns. You could email them and give a lot more details, in particular explaining what will happen to you when the data is lost. Because it surely will be lost. You should explain your backup strategy, and what kind of data do you manage (military secrets, financial data, health related data, IoT related data, etc...)

Basile Starynkevitch

Jan 22, 2021 12:23

That should go in your question, not as a comment.

Basile Starynkevitch

Jan 22, 2021 12:23

How important, how secret (i.e. how confidential) is the data on the disk? What would happen to you if the data is lost? Can you afford some remote backup?

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Basile Starynkevitch

Oct 11, 2020 03:03

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island

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Basile Starynkevitch

Jul 14, 2020 11:54

Consider also, either from home or with explicit and prior permission from your manager, contributing to some open source project existing on github.com or gitlab.com

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Basile Starynkevitch

May 28, 2020 10:13

The right for a few minutes of break to smoke a cigarette on the workplace (outside of the building) has gone to court in France. I am not a smoker, but AFAIK the worker won.

Basile Starynkevitch

May 28, 2020 10:13

I think it is country specific. In France, you could go to court and win. Smoking is a constitutional right, and at my office people (including managers) are often going out of the building to smoke. With the covid crisis, they definitely smoke at home, including when videoconferencing. However, by so doing, you give a bad image of yourself.

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Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 08:56

For those in Paris on March 6th, please notice the AI seminar in honor of the late Jacques Pitrat. See afia.asso.fr/journee-hommage-j-pitrat

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Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 08:36

(things are different with SSDs)

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 08:36

AFAIU "the normal bad sectors" are not even seen by dmesg, only by smartctl

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 08:35

@MichelHomer: by past experience, when dmesg shows something about bad sectors, the disk is really dying

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 08:33

"it starts working fine" is a probable illusion. You certainly means, "it seems to work fine"

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 08:31

My intuition is that in a few weeks, your HDD will be completely broken. I hope for you to be wrong

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 08:30

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])

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 08:28

You haven't lost any data yet. Wait a little time, and you'll lose some or all of it.

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:50

I have to leave. Good bye. Feel free to contact me by email to [email protected]

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:47

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)

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:47

Once you've got any bad sectors messages...

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:45

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.

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:43

And what happens to you once the laptop does not work at all (because the HDD is completely broken)

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:42

I really would like you to explain in written English why do you own a laptop.

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:39

On the other hand, SSD disks are rumored to break entirely at once.

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:39

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)

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:37

I personally would recommend replacing the HDD with an SSD disk.

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:37

Why do you own a laptop? What for?

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:36

Or is your laptop just a toy to play games?

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:36

How many hours of work do you lose when the HDD is totally broken?

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:35

What is the economical value of the data on your laptop?

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:35

So what, it means that your HDD is broken since more than a year.

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:35

If you are scared of doing that alone, go quickly to a shop

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:34

If your sight is good and if you have a good screwdriver, replacing an internal disk on Dell laptops is doable by yourself

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:33

So replace it as soon as possible. In a few hours, your laptop is dead or could be dead

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:32

but I could be wrong.

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:32

My personal intuition is that your hardware disk drive is dying

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:32

I need an explanation in written English. I don't need screenshots

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:31

No, you do have several file systems, as the output of df -h shows. And you don't explain why is it so

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:31

But why do you need a /mnt/Ext4 and a /mnt/Documents. Please explain in written English. No need to paste three times the same output

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:30

Why don't you just have a /home/ partition separate of the root partition?

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:29

Again, why do you need some many partitions?

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:28

You could run df -h and mount as root

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:28

But I still don't understand why you need ten partitions

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:27

Maybe the Debian or Ubuntu installer did that for you

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:27

Yes, but with additional option, on an otherwise inactive laptop

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:26

Your dmesg output mention a crypted disk partition. Do you have some?

Basile Starynkevitch

Mar 1, 2020 07:25

When my HDD was dying, smartctl detected it