Theodore, I did run fsck.ext4 on the file system. It cleared a bunch of errors and but it's still showing various problems. Another log of the file system. USB->SATA problems ? --------------------------------- Feb 22 19:23:31 finfin kernel: [ 2.402463] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB) Feb 22 19:23:31 finfin kernel: [ 2.403585] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Feb 22 19:23:31 finfin kernel: [ 2.405920] sdb: Feb 22 19:23:31 finfin kernel: [ 2.819633] sdb1 Feb 22 19:23:31 finfin kernel: [ 2.821592] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Feb 22 19:27:40 finfin kernel: [ 263.857108] sdb: sdb1 Feb 22 20:03:18 finfin kernel: [ 2402.182269] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Feb 25 03:49:40 finfin kernel: [203184.800029] EXT4-fs (sdb1): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended Feb 25 03:49:41 finfin kernel: [203184.980730] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Feb 25 04:41:26 finfin kernel: [206290.181230] JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = sdb1, blocknr = 0). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 25 05:01:39 finfin kernel: [ 2.402538] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB) Feb 25 05:01:39 finfin kernel: [ 2.403659] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Feb 25 05:01:39 finfin kernel: [ 2.405998] sdb: sdb1 Feb 25 05:01:39 finfin kernel: [ 2.424879] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Feb 25 05:02:07 finfin kernel: [ 82.487625] EXT4-fs (sdb1): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended Feb 25 05:02:07 finfin kernel: [ 82.657297] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Feb 25 05:09:40 finfin kernel: [ 2.404933] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB) Feb 25 05:09:40 finfin kernel: [ 2.406043] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Feb 25 05:09:40 finfin kernel: [ 2.408385] sdb: sdb1 Feb 25 05:09:40 finfin kernel: [ 2.411134] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Feb 25 05:14:17 finfin kernel: [ 2.435019] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB) Feb 25 05:14:17 finfin kernel: [ 2.436139] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Feb 25 05:14:17 finfin kernel: [ 2.438605] sdb: sdb1 Feb 25 05:14:17 finfin kernel: [ 2.441353] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Feb 25 05:16:21 finfin kernel: [ 174.548463] EXT4-fs (sdb1): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended Feb 25 05:16:21 finfin kernel: [ 174.728174] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209497] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242283) - no `.' or `..' Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209594] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242282) - no `.' or `..' Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209668] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242281) - no `.' or `..' Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209739] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242280) - no `.' or `..' Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209745] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (8) Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209818] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242279) - no `.' or `..' Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209824] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (5) Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209892] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40242278) - no `.' or `..' Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.209898] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (3) Feb 25 15:18:20 finfin kernel: [36293.226488] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (125) Feb 25 15:18:45 finfin kernel: [36317.996660] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40247537) - no data block Feb 25 15:18:45 finfin kernel: [36317.996671] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (24906) Feb 25 15:19:38 finfin kernel: [36371.180386] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40239122) - no `.' or `..' Feb 25 15:19:38 finfin kernel: [36371.232941] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (3) Feb 25 15:19:38 finfin kernel: [36371.343549] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links (5) Feb 25 15:19:38 finfin kernel: [36371.397308] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #40239106) - no `.' or `..' Feb 25 18:13:27 finfin kernel: [46799.800244] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Feb 25 21:51:47 finfin kernel: [59900.021575] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Feb 26 02:19:27 finfin kernel: [75959.826438] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code Feb 26 02:19:27 finfin kernel: [75959.826444] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK Feb 26 02:19:27 finfin kernel: [75959.826450] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 ac 44 00 3f 00 00 08 00 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html