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Re: ext3 file system



On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote:
> 
> I have been having (minor?) problems with the ext3 file systems on my
> machine.  I have Ubuntu installed on /dev/sda3, with Squeeze on
> /dev/sda2.  Nearly everytime I go into Ubuntu, then back to Squeeze,
> the file system check recovers the journal, and finds 8 or 10 orphaned
> nodes.  It seems to happen when I copy files from sda3 to sda2.  I use
> Sylpheed as a mail client, and on both systems have several shared
> folders..that is folders that are symlinked. 
> Any ideas on the problem ?

That sounds like the file system is not being cleanly unmounted by
Ubuntu during shutdown.  You are doing a clean shutdown, aren't you?
What happens if you manually umount the file system prior to shutting
down Ubuntu?

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