Re: HELP: EXT2-fs error

[Rob <box@box.halls.monash.edu.au>]

> I'm running a full Potato system (2.2.9 kernel).  Tonight, for the first 
> time, I got an error I've never seen before in the 4 years I've been running
> Linux full-time.  I'm hoping this is bug in Potato and not something more
> serious with my system.

[snip]

> 3,69 is the /dev/hdb5 partition on my hard drive which is mounted on /usr.  I
> presumed the directory #4148 referred to an inode.  So I did an
> 'ls -lRi |less' to see if I could figure out where the problem was.  I tracked
> it down to the directory /usr/share/texmf/omega/plain/config.  I confirmed
> it when I tried to 'ls' on the directory and got the same error as above.

Have you run fsck on the partition? Its probably the best place to start
with disk problems.

Rob.