<p dir="ltr">I'm wondering how to force that ssd to call those blocks bad. Maybe the hdparm secure erase can trigger the wear leveling algo in the unit.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 21, 2016 10:15 PM, "Chris Fowler" <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="m_-5193842287373197039zwchr"><div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 21, 2016 9:20:25 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Can't write to SSD<br></blockquote></div><div><div class="quoted-text"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><p dir="ltr">Reformat that disk and wiggle sectors/partitions around and try again. I'm wondering if the inode that holds dir data is failing. Don't know if badblocks will work for ssd.</p></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I'm seeing these repeat </div><div><br></div><div>EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 151587081, count = 1<br>EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 151587081, count = 1<br>EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 151587081, count = 1</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I may do a hdparm secure-erase. This is somewhat of a boot disk. The real system runs from memory, but logging is done to SSD. I could kick that part and maybe do the secure erase, create part and format, restore files, restore grub, and restart.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>