Re: Serious filesystem bug?

[Slobodan Aleksić <lists@aleksic.de>]

I first guessed also a hardwarefailure, all smarttests passed without 
errors, the only thing I found was that the partitiontable is showing me 
(fdisk -l) :
"Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary."
My first partition is the boot partition.

Very curious for now, because I am running several instances of 
Debian/Squeeze as servers and I am not getting such errors or problems 
there.

I believe if no one else got these problems that this is due to my 
hardware in any kind...

Thanks for your assistance!



On 12/31/2010 10:01 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Slobodan Aleksić schreef:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I don't know how to catogorize this:
> > I am using Debian/Squeeze on a laptop with an encrypted ext3
> > filesystem. (Encryption done through the debian-installer).
> > I have a h2-database running. It got corrupted many times. I had to "
> > touch /forcefsck" and after a reboot and the forced filesystemcheck
> > all was again okay.
> > The same problem appeared with downloaded ISOs. I ran md5sum checks on
> > the ISO and they were wrong. After forcing a fsck at boottime the
> > md5sum of the ISOs were correct!
> This is not the unique, might have been unnoticed, filesystem usage that
> you'd expect for new bugs to occur. So my guess is that there might be a
> problem with your hardware. What does
> smartctl -H /dev/yourdrive
> tell you? Also try
> smartctl --test=short /dev/yourdrive
> and then
> smartctl --test=long /dev/yourdrive
> Hopefully this uncovers something useful.
>
> Sjoerd