Re: EXT2-fs error

roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:03:01 +0000

On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 08:58:14AM -0600, Mariella Di Giacomo wrote:
> This machine is stressed when an indexing process (I don't have
> any source code of this program) is run and most of the times the kernel
> sends these messages:

my system went down when news.daily & updatedb were run at the same time I
recall. it's a P5-100 which is easily brought to it's knees.

> kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks
> not in datazone
> - block = 3796238336, count = 1
> kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks
> not in datazone
> - block = 3796304567, count = 1
>
> kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,1)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already
> cleared for block 65536
>
> kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,17)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already
> cleared for y cleared for block 8820961
>
> kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,17)): ext2_free_blocks: FreXT2-fs warning
> (device sd(8,17)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 26981
>
>
> kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sd(8,17)): exy cleared for block 8819668

now that I see your messages, I recall I have seen such stuff too. my system
went completely wild when quotas were turned off in order to restart.

> The devices with those major and minor numbers have been cleaned yesterday
> evening and I mean an e2fsck has been run and it fixed all the problems
> with inodes and blocks.

note that my system wasn't able to fix it anymore. I lost the root file
system completely.

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