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I'm running a media server using a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external hard drive connected via USB 3.0.

One issue I've been seeing for a while is "Bad message" returned when I try to ls or stat inside a certain directory inside my (ext4 formatted) external hard drive.

Bad message

The odd thing is that restarting the system appears to fix the issue 100% of the time I see it occur (I also don't have the fsck value set in fstab for the drive, so I don't believe it's being run on boot for that drive).

Working after reboot

Also, I even went as far as to repair the filesystem and even swap out the entire disk itself with a new one (using the same enclosure), format it again, and am still seeing the issue!

I'm aware of the Pi 4's issues with USB 3 and UASP and have already enabled "quirks mode" for the enclosure (my /boot/cmdline.txt: usb-storage.quirks=152d:0578:u,152d:1561:u console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=d4b5ead6-01 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait).

I'm running some Docker containers that all use the hard drive (Radarr, Sonarr, etc.). Could this be due to a process keeping a file handle open? A corrupted file being downloaded somewhere inside?

Or is this really just some kind of core issue with the Pi 4, as this commenter seems to think?

Thanks for any help. I'm a bit stumped and this has been annoying me for months now.

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  • you say inside a certain directory ... is it any directory in the USB drive, or that particular one?
    – Jaromanda X
    Jun 29, 2021 at 4:31
  • Just a particular directory (although it is the one most likely written to recently) but other directories that don't have much writes on the drive seem to be accessible without any issue!
    – idolize
    Jun 29, 2021 at 20:31

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