Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:11:17 -0500 | Subject | Re: e2fsck compatibility problem with 2.4.17? | From | "Mohammad A. Haque" <> |
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On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 09:11 , Joao Guimaraes da Costa wrote:
> > Hi, > > I am having a problem that might be due to an incompatibility between > e2fsck and kernel 2.4.17. > > My machine has a redhat kernel 2.4.3-12 and a kernel 2.4.17 I have > recently built from source. > > While doing a routine filesystem check at boot time (running kernel > 2.4.17), e2fsck found a problem with one of the partitions (I am using > e2fsck 1.25 from the redhat rawhide rpm e2fsprogs-1.25-2.i386.rpm). > > I decided not to fix the problem and checked it with a different kernel > and version 1.19 of e2fsck. In both cases, the partition was clean. > > So, I get: > > kernel e2fsck result > 2.4.17 1.25 problem > 2.4.3-12 1.25 OK > 2.4.3-12 1.19 OK > > Are there any know incompatibilities between kernel 2.4.17 and e2fsck > 1.25? Right now, I am not sure if the filesystem is damaged or not! > > The error I get is the following: > 1) e2fsck gets stuck after only checking 2.5% of the partition. It stays > there for about 5 minutes doing clik-clak noises until starting giving > errors > 2) First error is: > Block 32783 - 32791 (attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in > short read) while doing inode scan. > 3) Then in Pass 2: > resources in /src/linux-2.4.3/drivers/acpi (1894) has deleted/unused > inode 16435. > And it keeps giving many similar messages.... > > If it is useful I can try to get the full output. This has been 100% > reproducible in my system.
I just lost my system running 2.4.17/ext3 w/ e2fsprogs 1.25 last week with similar reports from e2fsck. Though I attributed my problem to my hard drive trying to tell me it was about to die because I got the same errors when booted into rescue mode from a RH 7.2 CD.
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