Plasma startup notification

WetGeek

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.

laky

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. 😁

brent

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🙂

Justin

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.

laky

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

laky

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) 😅

DataDrake

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.

brent

DataDrake I love knowing things like this, thank you.

Justin

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

laky

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

Justin

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

Immortal

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

DataDrake

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.

laky

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