Yes, it is the new ISO, so I’ll install gparted when I’m back in front of the machine and give it a go.
@joekamprad is not speaking about how new the ISO is as opposed to how old the updates are. Since arch is a rolling release its not uncommon to get an ISO that is several versions out.
ie Linux kernel on new release is 6.6.1 while currently Linux Kernel is version 6.6.3
another few weeks and even further out of date live environment.
It’s recommended to run a recent update before installing an app and especially before installing something from the AUR.
Doing this ensures that all necessary dependencies that you may already have on your system are up to date with the new app.
don’t try to do an update in a live environment. If you don’t have the package you wish try another distro or if you just want gparted then try
https://gparted.org/liveusb.php
I’m not sure what the percentage_used number means (the drive is definitely more than 8% full), but the power on hours are reasonable given it’s a ~5 year old OS drive and the pc is normally on 24/7. The 11.56TB written does sound high, especically since it has just been an OS drive (windows for ~3 years and now EOS for ~2), but I think that is well within rated ranges for WD nmve drives. That, of course, doesn’t mean it’s not failing. Any ideas on what to look into around the possibility of something weird going on with the install that could be stressing it out?
as @thefrog mentioned if iso release is new packages are not old …
And… you do not have to install gparted only if you need an option not included inside the partitionmanager already installed on the latest release … we do ship with the kde partition manager based on qt and not gtk
If there is something within your system, especially with btrfs (which i don’t use) in relation to your problem it is out of my expertise.
Try a new nvme disk or a new install to be sure where the problem lies, that is all i can say
Where you able to see the contents of the drive in the live environment before you ran that repair in gparted? I can see everything from the live environment I’m in now, so I’m hesitant to go down that road.
All I did is open gparted, right-click my disk and decrypt first, then select check, then apply, reboot. That’s it. I didn’t bother with anything else.
Weird, the check option is greyed out on all of the partitions I see in gparted. Thank you for the info, I guess that’s not my fix in this situation. I’m leaning toward backing everything up and reinstalling to see how that nvme drive behaves.
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You didn’t post a journal. We have 0 idea what actually is happening. Read this too https://discovery.endeavouros.com/forum-log-tool-options/how-to-include-systemlogs-in-your-post/2021/03/
Don’t do something if you don’t know what it does, aka what a partition manager check button means and does. Maybe your fastest option for solving this issue, is backing up your /home and whatever else important you have and do a fresh install. Do the backup for your home in a way that it saves your permissions and owners, for example tar.gz
Also your nvme drive is kind of old, to save yourself from more headache in the near future, you should get a new drive anyway.
Consider yourself lucky, because you can still access your data.