Re: Ext2fs getting hosed by fsck

Jim Pick (jim@jimpick.com)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 16:10:00 -0700


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> Yup, it's very clear somehow a data file got written into the inode
> table. I'm not sure how it happened --- whether it was a confused disk
> controller written data to a random spot on disk after a crash, or
> whether it's a kernel bug, or something else, that's not clear.

I had lots of problems with this sort of corruption (slowly, over time)
until I turned off HBA mode and 32-bit mode in my BIOS (at the suggestion
of some people on debian-user). That worked for me; don't know why.

Cheers,

- Jim

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