Messages in this thread | | | From | "pacman" <> | Subject | Re: ext2 error | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 1998 23:41:06 -0500 (EST) |
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Theo Van Dinter writes the following: > >EXT2-fs error (device 08:11): ext2_find_entry: directory #5996921 contains a hole at offset 5509120 >
I've had this same error occur several times, on kernels ranging from 2.0.2x to 2.0.35. In my case it's an IDE drive, and the affected directory is usually (perhaps always) /var/log, and it usually happens about the same time this cron job runs:
1 * * * * accttrim -n 1000 /var/log/acct 2>/dev/null || accton /var/log/acct
I haven't ever lost any files from /var/log. I just make a new directory, move /var/log/* into it (during the glob, ext2_readdir complains about the holes again), rmdir /var/log, and mv the new directory in its place, and everything stays happy for a while. (I did run e2fsck the first time I saw the error. It's been so long I don't remember what the results of that were.)
Is there anything I can do to try to catch these directory "holes" as they are being created? Any further investigation I can perform that would be helpful?
-- Alan Curry
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