BTRFS or EXT4 filesystem for 2TB external drive

Ok, well, this Seagate obviously does not like using EXT4. I did a clean install and it gives the same problem. Put it back to NTFS and problem goes away. My little 1TB Western Digital usb drive purrs away on EXT4 though. Strange. :confused:
 
Ockie said:
Ok, well, this Seagate obviously does not like using EXT4.
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No, I don't think the hardware is sentiently aware of (and dislikes) the filesystem. Ext3?
 
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Bar0n said:
No, I don't think the hardware is sententiously aware of (and dislikes) the filesystem. Ext3?
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Have not tried Ext3. Will maybe give that a go then tonight. If you going to insult my HDD, do so quietly please .... it might hear you!!!

/looks around suspiciously.
 
Ockie said:
Have not tried Ext3. Will maybe give that a go then tonight. If you going to insult my HDD, do so quietly please .... it might hear you!!!

/looks around suspiciously.
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Also try ext2. I'm quite interested in troubleshooting this.
 
Ockie said:
Well, I have downloaded Ubuntu 15.04 so just need to get a blank dvd and install...see if that solves it.
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Could you try formatting in a different machine as well? My gut feel is this has to do with a mounting issue (or auto-mount) but I'm really just guessing.

http://askubuntu.com will be a much better fit, but please let us know the solution if you do post there.
 
Bar0n said:
Could you try formatting in a different machine as well? My gut feel is this has to do with a mounting issue (or auto-mount) but I'm really just guessing.

http://askubuntu.com will be a much better fit, but please let us know the solution if you do post there.
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OK, so I installed 12.04lts and now the error is gone it seems. Used gparted and formatted the Seagate drive to ext4 with no errors or warnings.

Mounts with no errors either and disk utility SMART status reports disk as healthy
 
Ockie said:
OK, so I installed 12.04lts and now the error is gone it seems. Used gparted and formatted the Seagate drive to ext4 with no errors or warnings.

Mounts with no errors either and disk utility SMART status reports disk as healthy
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Glad you got it solved, but still curious about the cause. :)
 
Bar0n said:
Glad you got it solved, but still curious about the cause. :)
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Must be some kind of bug in the newer Ubuntu? Giving the micro server a bit of a break now before I start copying all my stuff back onto the drive. Now I want to relax a bit and watch Hemlock Grove :D
 
Baron. Update for you. Yesterday I did the updates on the server. Did not restart it though after the updates was done. Just now, when I switced it on .... guess what ... yip....error mounting the Seagate 2TB ext4 drive. Reinstalled Ubuntu 12.4 to get rid of the updates .... now its working again. I saw there was a kernel update with the updates I did. I can only imagine it is something in the later kernels or whatever that is buggering this up. I am going to disable updates completely on the server and just leave it as is now. I just cant imagine what in the kernel could be causing this problem and why it is not being fixed by Canonical? /sigh
 
Ockie said:
Baron. Update for you. Yesterday I did the updates on the server. Did not restart it though after the updates was done. Just now, when I switced it on .... guess what ... yip....error mounting the Seagate 2TB ext4 drive. Reinstalled Ubuntu 12.4 to get rid of the updates .... now its working again. I saw there was a kernel update with the updates I did. I can only imagine it is something in the later kernels or whatever that is buggering this up. I am going to disable updates completely on the server and just leave it as is now. I just cant imagine what in the kernel could be causing this problem and why it is not being fixed by Canonical? /sigh
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Please do file a bug report. They can't fix what they're not aware of. :)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
 
Ockie said:
Baron. Update for you. Yesterday I did the updates on the server. Did not restart it though after the updates was done. Just now, when I switced it on .... guess what ... yip....error mounting the Seagate 2TB ext4 drive.
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Just to be clear, did you have 12.04 on the server before the updates? And you did updates to 12.04, you didn't do a release upgrade to 14.04?

What is the exact error message you are getting, and when do you get it (when you manually try mount the drive, or is it being mounted when you boot)?
 
ginggs said:
Just to be clear, did you have 12.04 on the server before the updates? And you did updates to 12.04, you didn't do a release upgrade to 14.04?

What is the exact error message you are getting, and when do you get it (when you manually try mount the drive, or is it being mounted when you boot)?
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No....did not do a release update. Only the normal package updates. After that the drive stopped working again.

Error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdc: Remote I/O error
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and

Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sdb1: Command-line `mount "/mnt/usb-Seagate_External_2GHP3F06-0:0-part1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /mnt/usb-Seagate_External_2GHP3F06-0:0-part1 busy
(udisks-error-quark, 0)
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The error messages was slightly different in 12.04 than in 14.04, but I did not make note of them.

I think I saw others having similar problems on launchpad. will try and look for it.

Drive does not get mounted automatically. When I try and mount it with the disks app it would come up with the first message above. The second message is what came up on Gparted.
 
Ockie said:
No....did not do a release update. Only the normal package updates. After that the drive stopped working again.
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OK.
Ockie said:
Error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdc: Remote I/O error
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Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sdb1: Command-line `mount "/mnt/usb-Seagate_External_2GHP3F06-0:0-part1"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /mnt/usb-Seagate_External_2GHP3F06-0:0-part1 busy
(udisks-error-quark, 0)
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Drive does not get mounted automatically. When I try and mount it with the disks app it would come up with the first message above. The second message is what came up on Gparted.
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These are two different devices; /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. (/dev/sdb1 is the first partition on device /dev/sdb)
When Gparted gives that error, what is the output of 'mount'? (Open a terminal, type mount and press enter, copy/paste the output here)
What are the contents of /etc/fstab? (Open a terminal, type cat /etc/fstab and press enter, copy/paste the output here)
Do you boot up with the external drive plugged in?
Do you want the drive to get mounted automatically?
 
ginggs said:
OK.

These are two different devices; /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc.
When Gparted gives that error, what is the output of 'mount'? (Open a terminal, type mount and press enter, copy/paste the output here)
What are the contents of /etc/fstab? (Open a terminal, type cat /etc/fstab and press enter, copy/paste the output here)
Do you boot up with the external drive plugged in?
Do you want the drive to get mounted automatically?
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Server boots up with it plugged in and powered on and mounts it automatically with 12.04 (no updates installed).

It is working fine now again that I have gotten rid of the updates by doing clean install. I really dont want to break it again :o

No other way to troubleshoot it without breaking it again?
 
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