Subject: Bad drive copy ? From: Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:52:03 -0600 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >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. >Tonight when I accessed some of the data, I found errors. The file >sizes read correctly but the data in the files is corrupted. Have you had the hard drive mounted via more than one linux distro since formatting? I had issues when switching between Ubuntu, Fedora and Slackware, while accessing files off a usb hard drive. This happened using both ext3 and ext4. I reformatted using ReiserFS and have not had a problem since. I have no idea if using Reiser was the cure if it is a coincidence, but it seems more stable in my subjective opinion. I have no facts or numbers to back this up, but may be worth a try. Brett. -- 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
