Re: backup drive has died.
On 01/09/14 06:19 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it
> did give this error message when I tried to access it -
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 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
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> 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 -
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 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)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> 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.
Hello, did you ever try to run fsck on this filesystem ? What is the
result ?
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