<div dir="ltr">silly me! I just realized that the file system on the external drive is NTFS so there isn't much I can do with it.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">:/<div><div> ~ $ sudo fsck -f /dev/sda1</div><div>fsck from util-linux 2.27.1</div><div> ~ $ sudo fsck -f /dev/sda</div><div>fsck from util-linux 2.27.1</div><div>e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)</div><div>ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block</div><div>fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...</div><div>fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda</div><div><br></div><div>The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4</div><div>filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4</div><div>filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock</div><div>is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:</div><div> e2fsck -b 8193 <device></div><div> or</div><div> e2fsck -b 32768 <device></div><div><br></div></div><div>gparted says the device is on sda1</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Carruth, Rusty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com" target="_blank">Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Try fsck –f (for force). If the filesystem is marked clean and some other stuff it won’t run the test, IIRC.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 22, 2017 5:15 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: rsync<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="m_4506814571342357625h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">isn't it supposed to give a code of some sort?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is a mall snippet of the errors it gives when trying to rsync to the drive:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464030<wbr>32.ini") failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464035<wbr>76.xml") failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">here is a snippet of the errors I get when trying to delete the file recovery directory:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rm: cannot remove 'file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464016<wbr>88.xml.gz': Input/output error<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rm: cannot remove 'file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464019<wbr>20.xml.gz': Input/output error<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">any ideas how I can delete them?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:36 PM, James Dugger <<a href="mailto:james.dugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.dugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 7, 2017 4:52 AM, "Michael" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f460384<wbr>64.elf") failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f463996<wbr>16.bz2") failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464005<wbr>60_tooltip.svg.gz") failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464008<wbr>24_analog_meter.svg.gz") failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464010<wbr>72_extender-background.svg.gz"<wbr>) failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464014<wbr>88.xml.gz") failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync: readlink_stat("/media/bmike1/S<wbr>eagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Programs/file recovery/recup_dir.465/f464041<wbr>44.xml") failed: Input/output error (5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.1]<u></u><u></u></p>
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