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From:	antlists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions - FIXED
Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:04:45
Message-Id:	`59548984-7dfe-81f7-7200-aa9387f20e39@youngman.org.uk`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions - FIXED by Peter Humphrey

1	On 19/10/2020 12:33, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2	> Mystery solved. It was a disk failure: a 256GB NVMe drive. It was 4.5 years
3	> old, which doesn't seem a long life to me.
4
5	Doesn't sound old, but if it breaks in the fault-tolerance-management
6	area, then you're stuffed. Bit like old MFM (pre-IDE) drives had the
7	bad-block-management area, and if the first (boot/partition) sector
8	went, or said bad-block area, the drive was scrap.
9
10	Cheers,
11	Wol