[Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On 12/4/16, Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> @luke -- what's the Mac version of fsck (command-line filesystem check,
> Windows' version is chkdsk) and did you run it?

 yep.

> I've 'fixed' improperly-unmounted USB thumb drives with that command.

 yep, i know what it does - it triggers an ioctl to the system which
refreshes the partition table.

> On Linux, where 'sdx' is your SSD, "fsck -a sdx" (no quotes!) followed by a
> punch of the ENTER key, will do good things, if it's just a corrupt
> filesystem.

 all it does is hang at that point.  the kingston 512gb drive really
is completely f*****d.

l.