Re: Is my hard drive FUBAR, or is it dpkg?
I noticed in /var/log/kernel.log that there are lots of messages
like the following:
Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17
Apr 7 18:57:49 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block:
Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17
Apr 7 18:58:22 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block:
Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17
Apr 7 19:06:10 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block:
Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17
Apr 7 19:06:34 everybody last message repeated 4 times
Apr 7 19:08:27 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02): ext2_new_block:
Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17
which seems to suggest SOMETHING horrible is wrong.
You need to run e2fsck. Do `touch /forcefsck' as root, then reboot.
After e2fsck gets run you can remove /forcefsck.
It is possible that there is a bad block, as well. You might want to
run `badblocks' on the drive. If it is an IDE or modern SCSI drive,
then this may mean that the drive is dying, as they normally remap bad
blocks onto unused good blocks reserved for that purpose. If more bad
blocks start appearing, then you'd better back up *soon*, as you've
probably got less than 24 hours to total FUBAR mode.
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