Re: Urgent: File corruption (exponential rate).

[Anders Henriksson <andhe ida liu se>]

Hej.

I don't think this have to be a bad hard drive, reason? Well, I have the same 
thing happening to me primearly with the root partition every time I try to 
use the 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 kernel. 

What happens to me is that the first boot is ok but something "on the way out" 
ruins the filesystem and I get the same corruption. From that point on it 
won't boot.

BUT the 2.0.33 and earlier works just fine with the same disk. (still does)

It would be interesting to know if we have similar hardware, what do you have?

/Anders


Colin Cyr wrote:
> 
> Help!
> 
> I put up with this for awhile, not seeing any noticable corruption, now over
> the last week more and more of my filesystem is leaving me. ;)  I have included
> a few of the errors that it has been popping up.  The most recent corruption
> (wiping out a fair portion of my root partition on /dev/hda5) happened tonight.
> 
> All help is greatly appreciated.  I've never had any problems with this drive
> under the other OS, sector by sector checks under that OS show no problems, the
> drive is now just about 3 years old (Fujitsu 2.5GB).
> 
> I'm running RH5.1 k2.0.35-2, Patched to the erratta as on July 31, 1998.
> 
> Sep 10 04:02:56 sycore kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:05): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 7957
> Sep 10 04:02:56 sycore kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:05): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 7958
> Sep 10 04:02:56 sycore kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:05): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 7959
> Sep 10 04:02:56 sycore kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:05): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 7960
> Sep 11 04:02:57 sycore kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:05): 

No mystery. Your hard drive is going out.  Windows 95 Scandisk
is a very poor tool to check things with.  Read the threads. 
They have hard disks that Win 95 can't read or write to, but checks
out ok with Scandisk.

Trust your Linux messages, and replace that drive *now* before
you lose all your data.

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