hi ya robert... *ouch*...
yeah... its good that e2fsck can fix the fs..but sometimes... the fs is badly broken from a power shutdown ... there not much you can do unless ya wanna go fixing the inodes and links etc.. ( not too easy ... :-) - save your data to another disk...and reinstall from your *.deb packages???? - let it check itself again.. -- devices... > - which partition is "device 03:05" referring to (I guess hda5 but I´m ls -la /dev | grep disk | grep 3, | grep 5 says that its hda5 your /usr partition have fun alvin On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > A few days ago, power went out for a couple of hours (no, I´m not > living in California ;-) ). > > After it was restored, the box came back up, but a bunch of files were > missing in /usr/lib/, so I went to runlevel 1, and re-ran fsck.ext2, > which found a whole lot of errors and, supposedly, fixed them. > > The box seemed to be fine again. > > But today my syslog told me: > > Jul 1 05:39:22 WatchZwerg kernel: EXT2-fs error > (device 03:05): ext2_readdir: directory #207768 > contains a hole at offset 5120 > > (for offsets 1024, 2048, 3072, 4096, 5120, 6144 and 7168). > > So, single-user mode and fsck again, which found some 20 duplicate > blocks, some 50 unallocated inodes, and, supposedly, fixed them. > > My questions now are: > > - which partition is "device 03:05" referring to (I guess hda5 but I´m > not really sure)? > - how can I find out what "directory #207768" is? > - what could be the cause of those errors on a supposedly clean disk > (fsck.ext2 -pycfv ran at least 3 times) > - is it high time to start worrying on how to finance a new disk? > > The partition layout is: > /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda6 on /var type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda7 on /home type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda8 on /mp3 type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda5 on /usr type ext2 (rw) > > Hints, cluons anyone? > > cheers, > &rw > -- > -- "If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I > -- hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support > -- him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of > -- the house and not part of my family." Steve Wozniak, http://www.woz.org > ---- > > >