External Seagate hard-disk in Ubuntu

Lately I noticed some weird behaviour when I attached my Seagate Freeagent external hard disk to my SheevaPlug server. The sheeva plug runs Ubuntu 9.04, and after a certain amount of time (about once a day I'd assume) the Seagate would be re-mounted as a read only file system. Even though I had originally mounted … Continue reading External Seagate hard-disk in Ubuntu

fsck to the rescue…

While transferring files to my new hardisk on my SheevaPlug, I made a couple of mistakes which cut off a file in mid-transfer. This of course resulted in the file being corrupted: As you can see above, there's something obviously wrong with the file "SNWLback2.zip". Removing, moving or copying it made no difference, I just … Continue reading fsck to the rescue…