often have fs with errors on a 1tb hard drive (solved)

rastro123 · 2012-06-13 18:42:32

Hi, this is my first time asking for help. I've been using arch for about the past 12 months after I realised I wasn't learning anything from ubuntu. I'd been with that since microsoft drove me away with vista.

Ok, about 6 months ago I bought a 1tb SAMSUNG HM100UI (2AM10010) hard drive for my laptop. It is advanced format and I installed arch with the archboot cd and changed it to gpt. It seemed fine, but gradually more and more often when I boot it says that /home (ext4) has errors and I must run fsck manually. I always make sure it's shutdown ok. Many times I've done this now, and normally give the -y option and let it do its work. Yesterday, I got to the end of my tether, when it did it again after only a week, but this time it came up with a great many errors and was taking an eternity to do its work, so I stopped it running with the -y option, rebooted and this time did not clone any of the bad files (inodes?) and chose to erase them when asked. It took many hours, and after it was up and running again I coppied back all my missing files from a back-up hard drive.

Am I missing something fundamental here? Is it a bad idea to put such a big hard drive in the laptop? Could the hard drive be dying? I use my laptop many hours everyday, mostly for music playing where I work. Most of the bad files ''appear'' to be music files from the music folder. I down load a lot from the internet, but I didn't have this problem before with a 500 gb hard drive.

I've spent a lot of time looking around google for someone with a similar problem and likewise here but haven't found anything. Thanks if anyone can give me any ideas.

Last edited by rastro123 (2013-07-21 14:36:01)

4p1C · 2012-08-08 06:52:34

Hi Rastro,
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Hope it helps

nomorewindows · 2012-08-08 20:43:54

Smartmontools will help you determine whether your drive is going out.

rastro123 · 2013-05-22 20:17:46

oh, - it's long time Im not here! A belated thanks for the replies. Right it seems I made a stupid mistake by not making the root partition big enough and ran out of space. I almost sure that was causing the problem. Anyway I reinstalled and made a bigger partition and these days I empty the var/cache/pacman/pkg from time to time.
I don't see how to mark this as solved......?

ewaller · 2013-05-22 20:58:09

rastro123 wrote:

I don't see how to mark this as solved......?

Edit your original post. That will allow you to change the tread title; just prepend [SOLVED] to the title. We do not do that for you, because we generally don't know when you regard it as solved

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#1 2012-06-13 18:42:32

often have fs with errors on a 1tb hard drive (solved)

#2 2012-08-08 06:52:34

Re: often have fs with errors on a 1tb hard drive (solved)

#3 2012-08-08 20:43:54

Re: often have fs with errors on a 1tb hard drive (solved)

#4 2013-05-22 20:17:46

Re: often have fs with errors on a 1tb hard drive (solved)

#5 2013-05-22 20:58:09

Re: often have fs with errors on a 1tb hard drive (solved)

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