In article , Chris Green   wrote:

>> smartmon, however, has been utterly unable to prevent or warn about
>> SD cards in a R-Pi dying without warning (once) or Pi USB memory sticks
>> (twice) because that's not in its remit :(
>>
>I have to say that I regard SD cards in Pis (or anywhere else for that
>matter) as 'throw away when they break' devices.

Sadly yes. They *are* cheap enough to replace, however, some *warning*
that we are about to transition from working system to "Can't write
to file system, extfs struggling..." to "whole thing has locked up"
to "and no it doesn't boot any more" would be nice.
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