Re: EXT3-fs error (device hda8): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 17:24, Riccardo Castellani wrote:
> I'm using FC3 with Kernel 2.6.12-1.1376.
> After few hours file system on /dev/hda8 EXT3 partition has a problem so it 
> remounted in only read mode.

> Sep  5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda8): ext3_free_blocks: 
> Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 134217728, count = 1

That block number is 0x8000000 in hex.  It's a single-bit flip error;
that strongly sounds like hardware, and I'd run memtest86 on that box
next.

> Sep  5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: Aborting journal on device hda8.
> Sep  5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda8) in 
> ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
...

> I tried several times to run fsck on this partition and I also tried to 
> remount fs in a new partition, but it happened nothing !

What do you mean?  fsck found nothing wrong?  remount failed?  You _did_
unmount before fscking, did you?

--Stephen
> 

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