On 03/10/2018 03:48, bob prohaska wrote:
> My predicament was revealed by fsck: a fault was found, fsck asked
> permission to fix the fault and told me to run fsck again. The fault
> was still present. This went on till I gave up. If the block with the
> error is bad, and there are no spare blocks to replace it, this makes
> good if unhappy sense. I'm looking for some measuring tool that looks
> past the flash controller to independently ascertain the state of the
> storage media.

You don't get that in cheap SD card flash designed to temporarily store
photos and to be obsolete before it reaches its wear life.

You need to use something that is designed to be primary computer
storage, i.e. an SSD, as it's controller will not only be better at wear
levelling, but also support all the health monitoring information.

---druck

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