<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Gabe Rubin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gaberubin@gmail.com" target="_blank">gaberubin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>My system was extremely non-responsive last night. I saw these messages spammed to the console:<br>
systemd-journald failed to write entry ignoring read-only<br><br></div>And when I tried to start up certain services like httpd, I saw these messages:<br>
Warning: Unit file of httpd.service changed on disk, 'systemctl --system daemon-reload' recommended.<br><br></div>From some basic google searching, it appears these messages are symptoms of a hard drive going bad. This is not that surprising that this HD would go bad because it is fairly old.<br>
<br></div>So I am thinking of replacing it (unless anyone believes this indicates something that is not HD failing). This HD contains the OS (Fedora) and database and all non-media files (I have all my recordings on a newer 2TB drive segregating the DB off that). I had two questions:<br>
<br></div>1) Is getting a SSD worth it? Will it speed up my performance? Is there an issue with storing the DB and having the multiple writes that occur daily on the DB be on a SSD?<br><br><br></div>2) Assuming the dying drive is not dead yet, what is the easiest way to mirror the drive over to a new drive so I don't have to do a full re-install and set up (and remember) all my configurations. Just setting up lirc can take a few hours, so I would prefer to avoid doing a reinstall of myth from scratch.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Last time my boot drive had bad sectors but still functioned, I booted from a rescue image, used ddrescue to mirror the drive, then used fsck to check the filesystem on the mirrored drive.</div>
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<br>Thanks in advance<br><div><br></div></div>
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