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    Fsck on usb external drives ?

    I have a couple of external drives formatted to ext4,after some use I can see this message
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     EXT4-fs (sdc1): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
    every time I attach one of them:do I have to run a manual fsck after unmounting it,or can I safely ignore the warning ?
    Being an external drive,it obviously gets mounted/unmounted kinda frequently,so theorically I'll have to run this check pretty often.

    The other one is actually worse,it's a 3.5" WD drive with its own power supply,and lately it occasionally doesn't get auto-mounted when I plug it in,the message in syslog looks like this
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     ubuntu-kernel: [ 3618.190700] EXT4-fs (sdd2): error count: 8
     ubuntu-kernel: [ 3618.190705] EXT4-fs (sdc2): initial error at 1366215273: __ext4_get_inode_loc:4814: inode 11143320: block 44564649
     ubuntu-kernel: [ 3618.190711] EXT4-fs (sdc2): last error at 1366215527: __ext4_get_inode_loc:4814: inode 9836246: block 39321997
    does this mean that there is some actual filesystem damage on this drive,or can it be a sketchy power adapter,as I've read somewhere?

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    Re: Fsck on usb external drives ?

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    Last edited by ahallubuntu; June 24th, 2013 at 04:04 AM.

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    Re: Fsck on usb external drives ?

    Thanks,that will take care of the first message I suppose (the disk is new and there would be no point in checking it so often),but what does the second message actually mean ?

    This other disk is not so new and that line
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    EXT4-fs (sdd2): error count: 8
    has got me worrying:can that be actual filesytem damage on that partition,and what am I supposed to do about it ?

    Is fsck -f going to fix this ?

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