attempt to access beyond end of device

[Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:19:16 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Feb 24 18:40:43 mbrc20 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
>> Feb 24 18:40:43 mbrc20 kernel: sda: rw=0, want=40017743, limit=39062500
> 
> Disk corruption of some sort, or possibly bad ram (a common trigger for
> that).
> 
> Boot single user, force an fsck of each file system. Maybe also run a
> memtest86 check

I booted to single user and ran fsck.  I got:

   WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted file system
   may cause SEVERE damage.

So I aborted.  Should I run it anyway?

Mike.