laky just wanted to hear a thought about all this.

Could be that it's taking longer than expected, and while the notification is being displayed, in the background things proceed normally after the delay. Just a guess.

      WetGeek Might be that I still use HDD to run Solus, I am currently waiting for a new ssd to arrive so shortly I will see true speed of Solus , even with the HDD once the system loads everything goes pretty darn fast. 😁

        Could be the drive is starting to fail and Plasma is indicating it's having trouble reading parts of it. Check SMART data, do a check on it, etc.

          Justin I'll check it out using smartctl ?Never done this, tho I had a feeling the disk would start failing pretty soon.
          When it was bought 7 years ago it had 500 Gb storage , now over this past years of using it I can only see 465GB available.

          Edit: Command used sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda2 should this output be enough? I didn't want to post everything , but juding by this my HDD is still fine.
          SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

              Justin WetGeek Both your responses are different sides of the same coin--sectors don't populate---if any of my smartypants verbiage is correct--I don't know. . I found out when it happened to me recently; by that I mean the signs.

              laky --but you could be right with the smartctl, but I wonder if SMART in gnome-disks tells a different story. and even if it did tell a different story I wouldn't know what to believe. A random sample (different benchmark testing apps) of a specific thing (hdd) done 3 ways usually helps me from an opinion. When it comes to opening my wallet I require a consensus🙂

                      brent You can trust smartctl. It reads directly from your disk. The whole point of SMART is to provide a uniform interface for HDD/SSDs to report their health. If SMART is reporting that your drive has problems, it's your drive telling you it thinks it has a problem and you should probably listen.

                          If the drive has all PASSES then that's good, maybe try boot the Solus live ISO and run fsck on the installed partition.

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                            Justin That sure was quick! It took like 1 sec to give me the results. 😕 So here they are

                            fsck from util-linux 2.33.2
                            /dev/sdb2: clean, 452202/30498816 files, 30270335/121964544 blocks

                                laky Odd I thought it would take longer than that. Maybe check the options of fsck like fsck --help.

                                  Ok, I must confess regarding my previous post laky
                                  Just installed new nvme drive with 500gb storage it is reporting as 465gb in lsblk .
                                  But I've read on some forums that it is normal thing because of "over-provisioning" which ssd's are assigned.
                                  Meaning in short speech that bad cells are replaced with the good ones. (I had no idea my HDD had that kind of thing, could swear I saw full 500gb while using Win7 back in the day) 😅

                                      laky That's because Windows and Linux count amount of information differently (decimal vs binary).

                                        laky Well it's also a unit conversion thing. Gigabyte (GB) is an SI Unit and thus is a multiple of a power of 10. Gibibyte is the unit most of us think of, which is a multiple of a power of 2. HDD and SDD manufacturers typically report the drive capacity in GB or TB because it's a larger number. In your case, some of the difference in capacity will also be the over-provisioning, the rest is lsblk reporting GiB not GB.

                                            DataDrake It actually all makes sense to me now. Like that one song from "Jefferson Airplane" , that says "feed your head" Thanks for the knowledge, the best gift of all! 🙂
                                            Edit: typo