Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:23:37 -0800 (PST) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: reproducible filesystem corruption with 2.0.37pre4 |
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Hello Carlos, The statement below of always on block group 17 would lead me to beleive that the HD has a weak spot at that location . When you e2fsck that partition are you shutting down down or are you umounting it ? If shutting down watch your screen output carefully & see if possibly that that partition is really being umounted , there was a rash of 'Not being umounted at shutdown' a few months back . If you umount it and then e2fsck the drive and get the error repeatedly then I'd start suspecting the drive is having problems , I'd then recommend replacing it.
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Carlos Fonseca wrote: > Dear Alan and all, > I have been experiencing silent filesystem corruption with 2.0.37pre4, > always on the same partition (sdb1, >2GB) of the same harddisk. Basically, > the filesystem is supposed to be clean, but running e2fsck on it reports > summary information errors. Once, the machine froze up completely in X > (I am not on a network, so could not check whether that was still active). > I am attaching the output of e2fsck corresponding to that freeze, and > another one. Block group 17 seems to be always involved, but that may have > to do with just how full the partition is. > > I have been unable to reproduce the problem on the other partion on the > same harddisk (which is 1.7GB). The problem also seems to exist at least > in 2.0.36. This may not even be filesystem related, as the machine hung > twice at installation time when running mke2fs on this partition. The > third time, mke2fs succeeded and I got through with the installation. > I always used the default block size. > > I am also attaching the output of dmesg. The disk is new. df says: > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 2477177 574429 1774680 24% / > /dev/sdb3 1708427 116895 1503238 7% /home > /dev/sda1 153168 150704 2464 98% /dos > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Carlos Sorry, JimL +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere - Network Engineer - babydr@baby-dragons.com | | System Techniques - 25416 - 22nd S. - Des-Moines, WA 98198 | | Give me VMS -or- Give me Linux -but- only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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