Re: Filesystem Corruption on an OldWorld Mac

dd completed successfully. Looks like a filesystem corruption issue. 

I am not familiar with tune2fs. Should I force error fixing? Or is
there something else you have in mind?

Thanks,

Ben Ricker


On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:58:46 +0100, Filippo Forti
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> you should start by guessing if the corruption is caused by the filesystem
> or if it is a hardware problem. In order to discard the second hypothesis,
> you should go for a dd (dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/null) and see if you get
> errors. If you don't, you could try to correct the errors by using tune2fs
> 
> Good luck
> filippo
> 
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 09:28:33PM -0600, Flaffer wrote:
> > I am having a major issue with filesystem corruption on a Maxtor 60gig
> > ATA hard drive. I have had my third run through of fsck for two ext3
> > filesystems I setup. One is a root partition, the othe is for /var.
> >
> > The first symptom is that I start getting errors about writing to the
> > filesystem and complaints that the FS is "read-only". I then reboot
> > and fsck fails and I have to run fsck from the Gentoo CD. There does
> > not seem to be a particular issue. I get lots of duplicate blocks,
> > inodes with too many bad blocks, etc.
> >
> > I definitely suspect something with the ext3 FS. I have it in the
> > kernel (I am running 2.6.9, I think). Can anyone put me on the track
> > to fixing this? Is there any information I can provide?
> >
> > If I can get my logs back (/var was the latest victim, I can post some
> > msgs from the kernel log).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben Ricker
> >
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