What is going on here....

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2017-09-24 14:55, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 07:35:12 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>> Almost certainly your disk is dying.
> 
> From my perspective getting input/output errors means that the disk
> already is dead, smartctl for sure will show pending sectors. Working
> around this issue should be possible and should lead to a still somehow
> usable disk, but with slowed down performance, so continuing to use it
> even for something unimportant, isn't worth it.

A good 90% of the time, I completely agree.  But you absolutely can have 
something go wrong that FUBARs the integrity of the FS.  I *still* 
wouldn't trust it (well, until it's re-formatted), but I wouldn't chuck 
it until I'd determined to my satisfaction that it was a physical and 
not logical issue.

$.02,

-Ken