Turns out rolling back to 9.04 doesn't help. Same problem with external HD. Attempted fix led to same corruption, had to reinstall yet again. Seriously considering abandoning Ubuntu since it seems to have someone dropping some seriously screwed updates.
One more update:
Turns out rolling back to 9.04 doesn't help. Same problem with external HD. Attempted fix led to same corruption, had to reinstall yet again. Seriously considering abandoning Ubuntu since it seems to have someone dropping some seriously screwed updates.