Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

2016-06-19 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 18 June 2016 at 21:53, Mark Fraser wrote: > > > On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: > > > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT > > > partition > > > table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

2016-06-19 Thread Colin Law
On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT partition > table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed successfully and I used rsync > to copy some files onto it. > > The next day, I was unable to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

2016-06-19 Thread Barry Drake
On 18/06/16 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: I fixed these, but on running fsck a second time, these block differences were back. Now this drive is currently sat in an external USB tray so that I could copy files across before replacing the one in the computer. Are these errors due to it being on USB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

2016-06-18 Thread Mark Fraser
On Saturday, 18 June 2016 16:44:07 BST Simon Greenwood wrote: > > On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: > > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT > > partition > > table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed successfully and I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

2016-06-18 Thread Simon Greenwood
What did you use to create the partition? The only thing that I have found that works properly is gdisk. s/ On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT > partition > table and a 3TB ext4