[ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

[Colin Law]

On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser <mfraz74+ubuntu at gmail.com> 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 mount the drive and so I ran fsck on it. This
> failed pass 5: Checking group summary information with lots of block bitmap
> differences.

If you have not already done so then check the SMART data for the disc.

Also look in syslog to see if there are any rude messages.

Colin