-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul wrote: > Hi, > > A partition on one of my hard drives has decided that blocks 0, 1 and 2 > are no-go areas. I can mount the drive manually by using mount -t ext3 > -o sb=131073 /dev/hdg2 /web. > > If I run e2fsck on the drive, I always get the following output > > /dev/hdg2 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Pass 2: Checking directory structure > Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity > Pass 4: Checking reference counts > Pass 5: Checking group summary information > Free blocks count wrong for group #116 (32255, counted=32253). > Fix? yes > > Free blocks count wrong for group #178 (32252, counted=32251). > Fix? yes > > Free blocks count wrong for group #209 (6856, counted=6790). > Fix? yes > > Free blocks count wrong for group #210 (16220, counted=16282). > Fix? yes > > Free blocks count wrong for group #229 (32208, counted=31551). > Fix? yes > > Free blocks count wrong (8301757, counted=8301093). > Fix? yes > > Free inodes count wrong for group #116 (16352, counted=16350). > Fix? yes > > Directories count wrong for group #116 (0, counted=1). > Fix? yes > > Free inodes count wrong for group #229 (16331, counted=16201). > Fix? yes > > Directories count wrong for group #229 (7, counted=19). > Fix? yes > > Free inodes count wrong (4293267, counted=4293135). > Fix? yes > > > /dev/hdg2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** > /dev/hdg2: 7441/4300576 files (1.6% non-contiguous), 294123/8595216 > blocks > Error writing block 1 (Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted > in short write). Ignore error? yes > > It doesn't matter how many times I run e2fsck or fsck.ext3, I always get > the above. > > badblocks -n doesn't help either. > > The superblock is intact (as I can mount it), but I am unable to > automount the drive on boot. > > Anyone know how to get around this? > > TTFN > > Paul > > Dear Paul may you show us some output from "df -h"? also, which node size you have there, and how big is the hd? have you tried to run memtest86? Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCqXqRxHPquN24yVsRAqNWAKCXIZp0FvEZK0RbGUFb3AO1oBSOZgCg276d SajtgNstP9XIPVe4zEj8xJg= =lQC8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
