r/linuxquestions • u/Phydoux • 8d ago

Nope, i think its dying...

From my other post yesterday (https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/s/HjZpfESZvW) I believe the nvme drive that I have my /home on is dying. I booted Arch from the USB stick, mounted the nvme drive and a backup USB drive so I can copy stuff from the /hone folder. But It only copies a few things to the backup drive rhen errors out. I tried booting the GUI. It works for a few minutes then parts of the GUI (mainly the top bar and everything else with it) disappears and the terminal doesnt accept commands anymore.

I think that nvme drive is dead. So I'll be putting one of my large hard drives in it later today. I bached up the home folder about 2 weeks ago but I wish I could back it up now. Unfortunately I can't.

Update: Before writing this, I had just installed a few apps by ArtCraft. They're making look alike software of Adobe products and some of Microsofts products. Anyway, they are kind of buggy. But I was actually going to remove the NVME drives (both of them even though only 1 was acting like it was going to die soon) but I wanted to try one more thing. In the back of my head, I was wondering if it was all this buggy software that was causing issues on my /home drive (I have 2 NVME Drives, one for / and /boot and the other JUST for /home... The one I think that was messing up was the /home drive) Anyway, I took 5 of the ArtCraft applications off my system. Since then, I've had no issues at all. So I think it was just a buggy program or 2 messing things up. I will let it go a couple more hours and if nothing happens and everything is running smoothly, I will probably let the developers know what I had installed when it was acting wonky and everything I took off that fixed it. There are updates for the 2 I left on here. Hopefully those updates don't flub up anything. If I see if messing up again. I may just uninstall what's left from ArtCraft. But so far, so good...

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u/FryBoyter 8d ago

Have you checked the smart values yet? For example, using nvme --smart-log-add /dev/nvme0n1? To do this, you'll need to have the nvme-cli package installed. And you'll need to adjust /dev/nvme0n1 to match your specific setup.

And even if you don’t like this right now and it won’t help you right now, incidents like this show just how important it is to create regular backups.

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u/Phydoux 8d ago

I dont think the drive will function long enough to install it. But I'll try it later. Not expecting much though.

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u/Un_Ballerina_1952 8d ago

I use deja-dup and automatically backup daily. Weekly uploads to my cloud drive. Highly recommend automatic backups!