The hard disk failure has stopped me from playing FM for a while, but I am eventually back…
Reinstallation
With the major breakage, much needs to be done to get the system back to a usable state. But perhaps more importantly, I need to make a plan to make future recovery less frustrating.
Themes: a review after two years
As part of reinstalling systems after hard disk failure, I wanted to set up another local test website to try things out. I learned this the hard way: the online blog is not the best place to play around!
So, themes, again.
…and they keep dying and dying
In the beginning, I had disk A and B. Disk A died. I bought disk C. Disk C turned out to be faulty. I asked for a return and for the same time I installed a small Gentoo Linux installation in my SSD. Then Disk D came as a replacement for disk C. I installed another system on Disk D and copied the backup from Disk C. Then I discovered that Disk C has bad sectors as well.
I will write about the messy situation later, but apparently it is time for me to place an order for a new drive E, as well as a new power supply unit as the current one might be the cause.
At least, they say bad things come in three, right?
Hard disk died
My hard disk drive had died yesterday. I bought it in late 2015, and it died after being in service for about four and have a year.
I was playing Football Manager, and suddenly I noticed a different noise among my fans’ cheering. After finishing the match and the cheering sound effect had stopped, I could finally determine the noise: it was from the hard disk drive! Feeling a bad omen, I immediately checked dmesg, saw various SATA errors, attempted to call gparted only to be notified that my /usr/bin directory is already inaccessible, and basically my system was alive only because of Linux’s aggressive caching…