On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:18:40PM +0530, RAJESH DASARI wrote: > the below steps were executed in a loop for 100 times. I am seeing the > issue after executing for around 40 iterations. > 1) e2fsck -y -n /dev/sda1 Are you really using "e2fsck -y -n"? That makes no sense. The options "-f -y" would make sense; as would "-f -n". I'm going to assume it really was "-f -y" given your other comments, but being precise is also really important. You also didn't mention what version of e2fsck/e2fsprogs you are using, which might be useful, but given this is a flaky bug, it really doesn't matter, since it's almost certainly a hardare problem or a device driver problem. > 2) mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt > 3) touch /mnt/test.log > 4) umount /mnt > 5) e2fsck -y -n /dev/sda1 > 6)reboot > i tried to mount the hard disk as ext2 as my hard disk partition was > formatted as ext2 device. I would suggest doing a series of differential diagnosis. For example, replacing the hard drive with another hard drive. Moving your hard drive to another system, and seeing if you can reproduce the problem there. Simply reseating the cables might help. But this is not a software problem, but clearly a hardware problem, and so you're probably better office finding someone local who can help you walk through debugging a hardware problem. Cheers, - Ted