Re: R.I.P

["A. M. Varon" <andre@lasaltech.lasaltech.com>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, john wrote:

> I shutdown last time using shutdown -r 0 back into win95 then later tried
> to access it and ouch.
>
> I recieved the following.
> 
> Attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03:rw=0, want=1939953655,
> limit=979965 EXT2-fs error (device08:03): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in
> directory rec_len % 4 !=0-offset=8192, inode=3917106399, rec_len=31559
> name_len=17389.
> Parallelising fsck version 1.10 24 april-97.
> 
> Newby running Debian 1.3.1 , 2.1Gb UW IBM HDD from Adaptec 2940UW.
> what happened ,this in fact happened once before but i assumed i screwed up
> with a utility which supposedly gave acces to linux in win95. This is the
> 2nd time in 2 months <sigh> i kinda like the system, and am keen to
> continue, but this is putting me off. It has been running great except for
> these blowouts ???

It seems that debian was not really shutdown... maybe you pressed the
power switch while it's still trying to shut itself? try the command
"shutdown -r now" you could see visually that it has indeed shutdown
because it has rebooted.

I also have an adaptec 2940 UW, 2.0 Gb Seagate.

regards,

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