@deshipu Makes sense. Thanks for the detailed advice!
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If you have a potentially (probably) dying SSD with BTRFS on it, would you rather:1. -
If you have a potentially (probably) dying SSD with BTRFS on it, would you rather:1.@deshipu OK. Do you recommend some particular flags for dd? I've only ever used it to flash OS installers to USB sticks. Any reason to use dd over rsync?
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If you have a potentially (probably) dying SSD with BTRFS on it, would you rather:1.Some further details: I was able to login to root using a TTY. It took several minutes to open the TTY and log in, and every command would freeze the computer for a while. Didn't notice anything disk related in dmesg. This is where I ran btrfs check mentioned in OP. Did not try to do startx or something as I assumed this was a disk related error.
Lenovo UEFI diagnostics for disk, memory, CPU and motherboard all passed without errors, although the disk test was very slow (>10 hours).
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If you have a potentially (probably) dying SSD with BTRFS on it, would you rather:1.If you have a potentially (probably) dying SSD with BTRFS on it, would you rather:
1. Try to copy out data first
2. Try to use BTRFS repair utilities first, and then try to copy dataFor reference this is from a used Thinkpad X390 which lately has been running extremely slowly and now not being able to boot properly (not reaching login screen). btrfs check found some errors (but FS was in use), UEFI diagnostic found no errors with the disk nor other hardware.