<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><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;" data-mce-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" <jim.kinney@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale@ale.org><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 data-marker="__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;" data-mce-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>I'm seeing these repeat </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></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 data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></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 data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>