I have a Seagate 3TB Go-Flex USB 3.0 hard drive that has apparently failed. It still spins up, the light comes on, but none of the GUI file managers on Fedora or Ubuntu can display the contents. They give me the error message "Failed to open directory 'Movies'. Error when getting information for /media/Movies/moviefilename."
The contents are old movies that I continue to seed. I noticed the other day that Ktorrent was complaining about a couple of them missing pieces, and I started worrying then. But otherwise it continued to function until just now when I returned home after taking my computer to PSU. The Go-Flex is connected to a USB port on the laptop dock, so as soon as I place the computer in the dock it is recognized. I have to mount it before I start Ktorrent, and now after mounting it appears mounted, but I can't read the contents. This happens on both my laptop and my desktop, using various USB ports, and after wiggling connections. I opened Palimpsest, which reported the Smart information as "Disk has a few bad sectors." I unmounted it and ran "e2fsck -p /dev/sdb" which reported "Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/sdb: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem." (It is ext4.) The error message further suggested to run "e2fsck -b 8193 <device>." I have not tried this as I have no idea what this will do. It is not the end of the world if I lose everything on the disk (about 10 GB), but it would be annoying. And it is under warranty. But I could use some suggestions for things I can try with e2fsck or other tools before I give up. Any experts out there? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
