On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 15:05, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had another thought: if you care curious about where the problem > is, maybe you could run some read-only command that reads > every part of your disk, and see if it gets stuck anywhere. > For example: > # find / -xdev -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \;
On second thoughts, I think my suggested command likely won't "get stuck" when it hits the error, so it won't be very useful. Maybe better to hide the stdout from md5sum: # find junk -xdev -type f -exec md5sum '{}' >/dev/null \;