Can (or could theoretically) a recent Linux OS handle the case of an old...

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You've surely heard the warning: after some years of use, or a lot of data written to it, an SSD drive might be become defective. One of its symptoms: it might become only available for read-only accesses → No more output can be done on it. And those who encountered this problem, from what I've red over the Internet, found their computer entirely stuck. But on the other end, few years ago, CDs of Live Linux distributions were common. And from...

Originally asked by Marc Le Bihan on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Yes, but only with prior preparations. Most desktop/server distributions are not equipped to deal with a fully read-only / or /home . System services like systemd-fsck@.service will fail their regular check and cause the system to drop into maintenance mode. I've written a guide for external SSDs where you deliberately toggle a hardware read-only switch: How to run a regular (Ubuntu) Linux installation from SSD/SD with physical read-only switch? The full write-up is equally applicable here, just that it has to be done before the SSD drops permanently into read-only mode. It assumes a system using an initramfs and systemd. The base gist is: While the SSD is still writeable, install and...

Full answer by luziferius: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/807731 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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