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I was just running some DL code in a jupyter notebook and watching a youtube video in another tab. I heard the GPU fan turn off, but I saw an error about an IO issue. I did some poking around. When I try to touch a file in my /home, I get:

cat: .bash_profile: Input/output error

I checked dmesg and it doesn't look good.

[ 6187.973458] EXT4-fs warning (device sdc5): dx_probe:744: inode #10485761: lblock 0: comm gnome-shell: error -5 reading directory block
[ 6188.018594] blk_partition_remap: fail for partition 5
[ 6188.018620] blk_partition_remap: fail for partition 5
[ 6189.798280] EXT4-fs warning (device sdc5): dx_probe:744: inode #10485761: lblock 0: comm dmesg: error -5 reading directory block

I'm pretty sure that this means that my drive is finished.

What can I save from my RAM etc., so that I won't have to recreate everything when I set up a new drive? Anything that I can save from my /home to another partition would make me happy. I haven't rebooted yet.

Darth Egregious
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    If it were me, I'd have just shutdown & assessed from a 'live' environment (starting with smartctl etc). Either way, I'd have killed the GUI (which writes work files to $HOME), and limit myself to text tty/terminals, and scp to save anything you need elsewhere. Personally I'd go the way of re-create (or using backups) instead of risking copying incomplete/suspect files to a new environment, so I'd only grab what you absolutely need. – guiverc Oct 24 '18 at 04:33
  • Update on this... I ran a disk check and repair and was able to recover the partition. So anyone coming to this from bing or yandex or whatever, try that. – Darth Egregious Oct 25 '18 at 01:03
  • It's great that you were able to recover, but it would be wise to check the SMART status of the drive in question and backup regularly. – Elder Geek Oct 31 '18 at 19:11

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