Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

[Mark Fraser]

On Saturday, 18 June 2016 16:44:07 BST Simon Greenwood wrote:

> 
> On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser  wrote:
> > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT
> > partition
> > table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed successfully and I used
> > rsync
> > to copy some files onto it.
> > 
> > The next day, I was unable to mount the drive and so I ran fsck on it.
> > This
> > failed pass 5: Checking group summary information with lots of block
> > bitmap
> > differences.
> > 
> > I fixed these, but on running fsck a second time, these block differences
> > were
> > back.
> > 
> > Now this drive is currently sat in an external USB tray so that I could
> > copy
> > files across before replacing the one in the computer. Are these errors
> > due to
> > it being on USB or is the drive faulty?

> What did you use to create the partition? The only thing that I have found
> that works properly is gdisk.

I'd originally used KDE Partition Manager, but tried again with gdisk. Still 
getting the Block bitmap differences: .


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

[Simon Greenwood]

What did you use to create the partition? The only thing that I have found
that works properly is gdisk.

s/

On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser  wrote:

> Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT
> partition
> table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed successfully and I used
> rsync
> to copy some files onto it.
>
> The next day, I was unable to mount the drive and so I ran fsck on it. This
> failed pass 5: Checking group summary information with lots of block bitmap
> differences.
>
> I fixed these, but on running fsck a second time, these block differences
> were
> back.
>
> Now this drive is currently sat in an external USB tray so that I could
> copy
> files across before replacing the one in the computer. Are these errors
> due to
> it being on USB or is the drive faulty?
>
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[ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

[Mark Fraser]

Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT partition 
table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed successfully and I used rsync 
to copy some files onto it.

The next day, I was unable to mount the drive and so I ran fsck on it. This 
failed pass 5: Checking group summary information with lots of block bitmap 
differences.

I fixed these, but on running fsck a second time, these block differences were 
back.

Now this drive is currently sat in an external USB tray so that I could copy 
files across before replacing the one in the computer. Are these errors due to 
it being on USB or is the drive faulty?

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