Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it
did give this error message when I tried to access it -
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Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command-line
`mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sde1"
"/media/boudiccas/back1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs
type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde1, missing codepage or helper
program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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Is there any way in which I can access the contents of the drive please?
If not, is it safe to format it and re-use it please? If so, what should
I format it as ? ext3? ext4? Or something else?
It has for some months been showing this message in logwatch -
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WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
EXT4-fs (sde1): error count since last ...: 1 Time(s)
EXT4-fs (sde1): initial error at time 13973814 ...: 1 Time(s)
EXT4-fs (sde1): last error at time 13973814 ...: 1 Time(s)
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and I did query what it meant and what I should do about it, but I was
reassured that it was OK and nothing needed to be done. In the light of
what's just happened, wrong!
Thanks
Sharon.
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