Funny problem with my goflex home

[fchn139]

My GFH failed once again last week. It been failed serveral times before so I was not surprised. After plugin the USB flash drive I can boot the base successfully. I ssh into the device and evrything looks fine. The funny thing is : Once I insert the harddisk, the ssh will not recognize any command at all, it always says "bash, command ls is not found". I was thought the HD is dead so I pull the HD apart and insert the bare HD into my PC. The PC complians the HD is not formated but can find the disk. I formated it with NTFS and run some checks and everything is OK. I thought maybe the USB flash drive is bad so I re-built the USB flash drive and the result is exactly same. Anyone have faced a similiar problem before?

Thanks,

[WarheadsSE]

So it just hates your drive?

[fchn139]

Yes, It will refuse to excute any command once the HD is plug in. The exist ssh session will keep alive but says "command can't be found" or something like it. A new ssh session will be rejected with some network error. If I remove the HD, the situation is the same unless I re-boot the device without the HD.

[WarheadsSE]

Do you have anything funky in your /etc/fstab?

[fchn139]

The problem solved.
Attached the HD to my Ubuntu machine and deleted all partitions and re-part/format it to etx2 and everything is normal now.

Have to re-install every application now, and I feel so bad my little girl lost all of her cartoon movie's back-up. She has to dig-out the DVD if she want to watch some movies for awhile.

[moonman]

why not do a backup first? Also ext2 is not the best option if you are worried about data integrity.

[fchn139]

There are nothing important on the HD, just some DVD back-ups, We still have the disc so it is not a big problem. I moved all of my personal data to my NAS after the GFH failed last time. Back-up will take some time also.
I agree the ext2 is not good but since the HD will be used for DVD back-ups, and most, if not all of these back-ups will never be used ever, I guess I will just live with it.