2012/11/12 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>: > > You said this is an external USB drive, right? How big is it? Yep, its an external USB3.0 3TB disk. > If it's affordable, something I would suggest doing is to make image copy > (i.e., using dd or dd_rescue) to another external USB drive, just to > rule out hardware issues. I'm sorry but I don't have a spare one of those lying around, but wouldn't I see hardware errors in the dmesg output? > > The Pass 1B/1C/1D errors, particularly if you are seeing the exact > same pattern after running a full e2fsck -fy run, makes me suspicious > that inode table blocks are getting written to the wrong location on > disk --- and whether this is caused by the storage device failing in > some strange way. > > Also, can you save the output of e2fsck to a file? Direct the output > to a log file, so I can look at it. There are patterns of the > "millions of entries of the same pattern" which you've elided which > can be a hint. Yep, no problem, I'll send you a complete output in an hour or two, when I'm home. I just omitted those since its really huge and it looked to me like if its only counting from the smallest number to the biggest, and skipping some numbers in between. > Also, can you disable the German translation to make > it easier for me to investigate? Could you tell me how to disable the German translations? sorry... > > Thanks, > > - Ted Thanks for looking into my issue! Regards, Thomas -- 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
