Also, smartctl will only tell you if you physical drive has failed/about to fail.
To try and get things going again running e2fsck should be enough if you only had filesystem corruption and your hard drive is OK.
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Also, smartctl will only tell you if you physical drive has failed/about to fail.
To try and get things going again running e2fsck should be enough if you only had filesystem corruption and your hard drive is OK.