Ext2fs problem not cured by e2fsck

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

I had a power failure yesterday and I have a corrupted filesystem as
a result.  When fsck tried to repair it, it produced some strange
messages, and seems to be unable to repair the problem.

I am also getting a 'no space on device' message, but 'df -k' still
shows 273Mb available.

This is what I get: 
  Script started on Fri Aug 29 06:23:01 1997
  linda# fsck -y /dev/sda1
  Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97)
  e2fsck 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
  /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
  Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
  Error reading block 2103793 (Success) while reading indirect blocks of inode 477625.  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error reading block 2102843 (Success) while reading indirect blocks of inode 477624.  Ignore error? yes
  
  ... and so on ...
  
  Pass 2: Checking directory structure
  Error reading block 2129105 (Success).  Ignore error? yes
  
  Directory inode 477567, block 2, offset 0: directory corrupted
  Salvage? yes
  
  Error writing block 2129105 (Success).  Ignore error? yes
  
  Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
  Pass 4: Checking reference counts
  Pass 5: Checking group summary information
  Error reading block 2097163 (Success) while reading inode and block bitmaps.  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error reading block 2097164 (Success) while reading inode and block bitmaps.  Ignore error? yes
  ... and so on ...
  
  Fix summary information? yes
  
  Block bitmap differences: +2097153 +2097154 +2097155 +2097156 ... and lots more ...
  Padding at end of block bitmap is not set. Fix? yes
  
  
  /dev/sda1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
  /dev/sda1: 149930/536576 files (6.7% non-contiguous), 1770388/2144646 blocks
  Error writing block 2097163 (Success) while writing block bitmaps.  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error writing block 2105355 (Success) while writing block bitmaps.  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error writing block 2113547 (Success) while writing block bitmaps.  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error writing block 2121739 (Success) while writing block bitmaps.  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error writing block 2129931 (Success) while writing block bitmaps.  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error writing block 2138123 (Success) while writing block bitmaps.  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error writing block 2097153 (Success).  Ignore error? yes
  
  Error writing block 2097154 (Success).  Ignore error? yes
  
  ... and so on ...


This is the third or fourth time I've run fsck, and the errors keep on occurring.

I think I will have to destroy and rebuild the partition, but I'd like to 
understand what is going on here.


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