Hi! A few days ago, power went out for a couple of hours (no, I´m not living in California ;-) ). After it was restored, the box came back up, but a bunch of files were missing in /usr/lib/, so I went to runlevel 1, and re-ran fsck.ext2, which found a whole lot of errors and, supposedly, fixed them. The box seemed to be fine again. But today my syslog told me: Jul 1 05:39:22 WatchZwerg kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:05): ext2_readdir: directory #207768 contains a hole at offset 5120 (for offsets 1024, 2048, 3072, 4096, 5120, 6144 and 7168). So, single-user mode and fsck again, which found some 20 duplicate blocks, some 50 unallocated inodes, and, supposedly, fixed them. My questions now are: - which partition is "device 03:05" referring to (I guess hda5 but I´m not really sure)? - how can I find out what "directory #207768" is? - what could be the cause of those errors on a supposedly clean disk (fsck.ext2 -pycfv ran at least 3 times) - is it high time to start worrying on how to finance a new disk? The partition layout is: /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda6 on /var type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda7 on /home type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda8 on /mp3 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda5 on /usr type ext2 (rw) Hints, cluons anyone? cheers, &rw -- -- "If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I -- hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support -- him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of -- the house and not part of my family." Steve Wozniak, http://www.woz.org ----
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