Rasperry Pi home dir restore

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Hello guys, this is Daniele from Italy

I’ve been using osmc in my raspberry pi 3.
I installed “imagemagick” tool (sudo apt-get install imagemagick), all seems good and I ran identify and other imagemagick command.

The issue: the day after (I can’t remember if I reboot pi or not) I cannot find imagemagick and the its command, also my home dir seems restored as it was before the install (I made a script to rename the jpeg file adding some info to the name, it was in my home dir and now is totally disappeared).

I tried to re-install imagemagick, but I still have the same issue.

Any suggestion? Thanks in advance,

Daniele

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That indicates your SD card most likely gone.
Do this test:
touch test.file
ls -lah test.file
reboot
ls -lah test.file

If your test.file is not visible after reboot get a new SD Card.

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You are right, thank you so much, test.file is missing…

I will replace the SD as soon as possible, do you think that if I made a SD backup now it may be somehow affected/corrupted?

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Hard to say but it might be still OK. Just do the backup and restore on the new card. You don’t have anything to loose.

5

Hi,

It seems like your SD card may be problematic.

Some SD cards are not genuine or have a lower capacity than advertised. Some simply fail over time.

Symptoms of SD cards not working correctly are:

  • Read-only behaviour, or changes made not persisting
  • A filesystem corruption error

Symptoms of counterfeit SD cards are:

  • Writing works until a certain filesystem size is reached, thereafter, writes seem to cause issues where existing data is lost or newly written data is not preserved.
  • SD card fails after a short amount of time.

Counterfeit cards are usually found on Amazon and eBay.

SD cards have a limited lifespan. I recommend you change SD card and suspect that issues will no longer persist with a good card. If you would like to be a good quality SD card purpose manufactured for OSMC, then you can find one in the Store.

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Thank you all,

I have a progressive rsync log that every day syncs, the file looks good until Sept 16th.
On Sept 17th I removed the SD card (to make a backup), the issue started there.