Epilogue:
After all that I have to report that, sadly, my HDD expired today after running nicely with no issues. fsck can't even find /dev/sda2 anymore.
I did manage to back up all important doc's (I think) & had run smartmontools which showed me this demise was to be expected. A reallocated sector count at 584, with 69 remap attempts & 88 sectors awaiting remap, looked to me like a small miracle it was running at all. Fairly clear what my crashing problem was. I've never had an HDD die of old age before...
Epilogue:After all that I have to report that, sadly, my HDD expired today after running nicely with no issues. fsck can't even find /dev/sda2 anymore.
I did manage to back up all important doc's (I think) & had run smartmontools which showed me this demise was to be expected. A reallocated sector count at 584, with 69 remap attempts & 88 sectors awaiting remap, looked to me like a small miracle it was running at all. Fairly clear what my crashing problem was. I've never had an HDD die of old age before...
After all that I have to report that, sadly, my HDD expired today after running nicely with no issues. fsck can't even find /dev/sda2 anymore.
I did manage to back up all important doc's (I think) & had run smartmontools which showed me this demise was to be expected. A reallocated sector count at 584, with 69 remap attempts & 88 sectors awaiting remap, looked to me like a small miracle it was running at all. Fairly clear what my crashing problem was. I've never had an HDD die of old age before...
