Re: EXT2-fs error

Jan Kara (jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:52:12 +0100

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Hello
>
> I got this when "rm -rf'ing" a fairly large directory (the kernel source):
>
> EXT2-fs error (device 03:06): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in
> datazone - block = 16777216, count = 1
>
This looks like filesystem corruption. I would recommend you to run
fsck on the partition. It is a question whether the corruption was
caused by hardware, bug in code or just not unmounting the partitions
cleanly (some lockup, power failure etc...). Have you had any problems
like this before?

Honza.

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