Filesystem corruption - hard disk exploded!

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Volker Wysk wrote:
>Am Donnerstag, 27. Juni 2019, 18:29:25 CEST schrieb Little Girl:

>> >That filesystem corruption of mine has quickly expanded. It has
>> >expanded to the boot partition and the LVM metadata, last.  
>> 
>> At this point, I'd strongly suspect the power supply as the source
>> of the trouble.  
>
>A defect power supply unit?

Yes, that's what I'm thinking might be happening.

>It has 550 Watts and is one and a half year old. I cost 79 €. I
>explicitly wanted a quality part.
>
>And it appears to work now...

Sometimes they fail even if they're considered good quality power
supplies. The worst part is that they don't always fail completely,
but just sporadically cause trouble. We went through several computer
parts, one after the other, before realizing that the culprit was the
power supply.

>When the corruption starts again, I'll go to that computer shop and
>make them swap the power supply.

You could have them test it or follow the instructions in compdoc's
message for peering through the openings in the power supply to see
if the capacitors inside the power supply are bulging.

Also, here are all kinds of pages on failing power supplies so you can
take a look and see if it seems like the power supply might be
causing your issues:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=computer+power+supply+failure+symptoms&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Last, but not least, if the issue is the power supply and you end up
replacing it, I would strongly recommend also replacing any parts that
were affected by it.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.