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100% SSD usage Linux
Every 20-30 seconds my HDD usage goes to 100% (iostat).
iotop is showing that [flush-8:0] is using 99% HDD during these times. In between HDD usage is 1-10%.
iostat output:
04/22/2013 08:58:44 AM
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TRIM persistence across reboots
Let's say we have an ext4 filesystem image we dumped onto an SSD (with dd). After a few mounts we learn that we should use the discard flag to emit TRIM commands to the drive. As it is unclear ...
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ext4 mkfs option for usb stick
i have an raspberry pi running the raspian (debian) linux. I need to add an "external" storage to store an mysql database and cache-directories for webdav mounts.
For that I like to mount an USB ...
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ext4 filesystem corruption — maybe hardware error?
I'm getting these errors in dmesg after about half an hour after I turn on the computer:
[ 1355.677957] EXT4-fs error (device sda2): htree_dirblock_to_tree: inode #1318420: (comm updatedb.mlocat) ...
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SSD TRIM (discard) problems with ext4 on Crucial C300 SSDs with CentOS 5.5
Playing around with using a modern kernel (2.6.37 currently) on an older OS (CentOS 5.5) so we can get TRIM (discard) working on our SSDs (Crucial C300s).
The most recent hdparm (9.37) concurs that ...
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Causes of sudden massive filesystem damage? (“root inode is not a directory”)
I have a laptop running Maverick (very happily until yesterday), with a Patriot Torx SSD; LUKS encryption of the whole partition; one lvm physical volume on top of that; then home and root in ext4 ...
