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Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:17 pm
by zilcro
I have some video and backup files on a secondary internal hard drive that have suddenly become inaccessible on occasion. The drive always shows up in file manager but sometimes it's contents are blank. If I reboot, the contents always reappear.
It seems like this started happening after I began using the secondary HD as the target drive for Timeshift backups. That could just be a coincidence, though. The primary drive contains all boot and system files for Mint. The secondary one is only used as an auxiliary drive. I'm running Tricia 19.3 Xfce.
Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:27 pm
by mikeflan
That is an interesting problem. Could it be as simple as the drive is not mounted? Next time go into Disks to see if the drive is mounted when file manager cannot see it.
Please post the results of all these commands, and say whether the drive is visible when you run these:
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lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,UUID
Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:19 pm
by zilcro
Thanks for answering. Yes, the drive is shown as mounted when the contents are blank (first thing I checked
).
Here are the command results you asked for (secondary drive files visible):
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$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
Host: generic-tower Kernel: 4.15.0-121-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.22.30 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4
dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: A8N5X v: 1.XX serial: <filter>
BIOS: Phoenix v: ASUS A8N5X Revision 1003 date: 06/01/2006
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: K8 rev.E rev: 2 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 bogomips: 4020
Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1000
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:128b
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa compositor: compton v: 0.1~beta2+20150922
resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV106 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.0.8 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA CK804 AC97 Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK K8N4/A8N Series Mainboard driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:04.0 chip ID: 10de:0059
Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0f
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-121-generic
Network:
Device-1: NVIDIA CK804 Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK K8N4/A8N Series Mainboard
type: network bridge driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: b000
bus ID: 00:0a.0 chip ID: 10de:0057
IF: enp0s10 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 335.32 GiB used: 193.14 GiB (57.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3200826AS size: 186.31 GiB
speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3.02 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3160023AS size: 149.01 GiB
speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 8.12 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 182.38 GiB used: 136.11 GiB (74.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 41 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/danielrichter2007-grub-customizer-bionic.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu bionic main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-bionic.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
2: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.linux.duke.edu/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.linux.duke.edu/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.linux.duke.edu/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
Info:
Processes: 175 Uptime: 3h 56m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 1.31 GiB (44.6%)
Init: systemd v: 237 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 alt: 7 Shell: bash
v: 4.4.20 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.32
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$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev
tmpfs 301M 1.4M 299M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 183G 137G 37G 79% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 301M 24K 301M 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb1 146G 58G 82G 42% /media/zilcro/HD2
Model: ATA ST3200826AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 200GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 200GB 200GB primary ext4 boot
Model: ATA ST3160023AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 160GB 160GB primary ext4
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$ lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,UUID
NAME FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT LABEL UUID
sda
└─sda1 ext4 / 54b332b4-8bd9-4b54-af12-1c0cad44adc1
sdb
└─sdb1 ext4 /media/zilcro/HD2 HD2 9e70f9df-44c3-4676-ba8a-29632da4fb89
sr0
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$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 186.3G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 186.3G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 149G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 149G 0 part /media/zilcro/HD2
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:02 pm
by mikeflan
I don't see any blaring issues. So sdb has 58 BG on it. The video and backup files that are sometimes not visible are a small part of the total? Are all these files within the Timeshift snapshot directory? If not, what is the context of the files? Can you put other files in the directory that is missing files, and then they all show up along with the video and backup files after a reboot. Then later do the video and backup files disappear and the other files remain? Or do they disappear too?
I assume there are no Windows directories and no "Fast boot" option turned on in the bios.
Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:21 pm
by Larry78723
Just curious, what does fstab show for the secondary drive? Please post the results for the following command:
Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:23 pm
by zilcro
Sure...
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$ cat /etc/fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=54b332b4-8bd9-4b54-af12-1c0cad44adc1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:38 pm
by Larry78723
See if this eliminates the problem. Add the following line to your /etc/fstab:
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UUID=9e70f9df-44c3-4676-ba8a-29632da4fb89 /media/zilcro/HD2 ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:50 pm
by zilcro
Thanks. I have added it & we'll see what happens. What does that do anyway? Does it force some sort of "auto re-mount"?
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Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:24 pm
by Larry78723
@zilcro - Adding that line to fstab mounts your secondary drive when the machine boots instead of trying to mount when you select it.
Re: Secondary HD Intermittently Inaccessable
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:55 pm
by zilcro
Ah, got it. Thanks for clarifying.