How I fixed my backup drive

 

I maintained this blog regularly from 2003 to 2016. Although old posts are still online for reference, this post was published 20 years ago and it could be out of date.

 

How I fixed my backup drive

<geek> 

Memo to self – this was how I cleaned up my Lacie 500Gb external backup drive which was giving read/write errors.

umount /dev/sdg1
e2fsck -fyc /dev/sdg1

Then go out for 3 hours …

</geek> 

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