On 1/5/24 21:10, Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 17:25:48 -0800
David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
I would be curious to know if a secure erase forces the pending
sector issue and, if so, what the result is.
An interesting thought. Alas, I am far enough along on re-installing
that I do not want to try it. Sorry.
I suggest taking an image (backup) with dd(1), Clonezilla, etc., when
you're done. This will allow you to restore the image later -- to
roll-back a change you do not like, to recovery from a disaster, to
clone the image to another device, to facilitate experiments, (such as
doing a secure erase to see if it resolves the SSD pending sector
issue), etc..
If you also keep your system configuration files in a version control
system, restoring an image is faster than wipe/ fresh install/
configure/ restore data.
David
