I seem to be doing a lot of things with hard drives these days ! I purchased an external 2 TB SATA hard drive. I connected it to my laptop via a USB interface. I partitioned it to 1 large partition and formatted it to ext4. I then copied about 200 GB of data to it using Dolphin. I closed Dolphin while doing the copy but the process kept running as a kio. No errors were reported. Tonight when I accessed some of the data, I found errors. The file sizes read correctly but the data in the files is corrupted. I ran fsck on the drive. # umount /dev/sdc1 # fsck /dev/sdc1 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009) /dev/sdc1: clean, 128156/122101760 files, 75280327/488378000 blocks Luckily I still have all the original data, or at least 98% of it. I checked the source files and they all read fine. Why do I have errors in the files I copied ? Why isn't anything reporting an error ? $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 03:27:15 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Is is worth repeating the copy using cp to see if I get the same results ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
