On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 December 2011 14:14, James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ext4: "fill_buffer on unknown block <BLOCKID> out of range" > > Apologies; the correct message is: > grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744072382021139 for device > sdb1 > > This appears 42 times immediately following mount. > > Running picasa today, it informed me that one of the files I was > working with was corrupted (but put the message in a box too small to > read the full path). > > This makes me think that perhaps the disk is bad. Any advice, aside > from the usual "get your data off asap"?
Does it happen to be a >2TB USB drive? I remember reading about problems with some of those. It works in Windows with the factory partition/FAT tables because of tricks they do to the addressing that works in Windows, but once you reformat it you can't access the >2TB areas. Something like that... As far as I recall, you could repartition to create a 2TB or smaller partition and that would work, but then the rest of the drive was inaccessible.
