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echo: rberrypi
to: NELSO...@GMAIL.COM
from: GRANT TAYLOR
date: 2021-02-01 10:01:00
subject: Re: Where are my backup f

On 2/1/21 8:19 AM, nelso...@gmail.com wrote:
> I just got this 8TB drive for christmas and am hoping it is not
> dying already.

File system corruption can be caused by a LOT of things.  I highly doubt
that a new drive is dying.

> I found that fsck did a better job than gparted for resurrecting drive.

fsck (file system checking utility) and gparted (partition management
utility) do completely different things.

At least I'm not aware of gparted having any fsck capabilities.



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