On Sun May 10 2020 14:31:38 Felmon Davis wrote:
I'm wondering about the idea (a variant of something Mike suggested) of doing some kind of install or re-install of the base system. hopefully leaving most of the configuration files of installed programs intact.
what's a clever way of doing this? not sure how to get a listing of these things.
apt-get install --dry-run --reinstall $(dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | awk '{print $2}')
But I would not reinstall any more than necessary on a failing drive/ssd and it could easily make things worse.
Replace it now. It's not worth your time to do anything else.
--Mike
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