-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 postid wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +0000, postid wrote: >> >>> For the second time in a month I got an error message >>> indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. >>> >>> I've had bad inodes before not long after a failure to load >>> my PCMCIA modem (which resulted in endless error messages on >>> boot) and before I knew alt sysrq-r -s -e -i -u -b and had >>> shut down by shutting down the power. I've had the modem problem once >>> about a week ago and rebooted with RSEIUB. >>> Oh yes, and about a week ago I was trying a USB stick and >>> the machine froze and I did an RSEIUB. >>> >>> This time the machine froze in KDE, so I did RSEIUB. Upon >>> rebooting, I got "Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked >>> list found" and got the suggestion to run fsck manually. >>> That resulted in "Inode 820174 was part of the orphan inode >>> link. Fix?" and a few saying the same for some other inodes. >>> >>> It then asked permission to fix a deleted inode with zero >>> dtime, clear an unattached zero-length inode, fix inode bitmap >>> differences, and fix a wrong inodes count for group #50. >>> >>> Any ideas as to what causes such problems? Is it that PCMCIA >>> loading problem, my hard drive dying, an OS problem or >>> a software problem? >> >> >> The magic keystrokes just sync the disks, they do not unmount the >> filesystems. Thus, things can become corrupted. If it were me, after >> such a reboot, I'd come up in init=/bin/sh and run fsck manually. >> > Please pardon my ignorance here, but what do you mean by "come up in > init=/bin/sh"? > >> Ideally, you'd use ext3 with data=journal. That way, syncing the disks >> will get the data _somewhere_ on the disk so that replaying the journal >> in a normal boot fsck would set things right. >> > Again, my apologies, this time for not supplying more complete info. I'm > using ext3, running Sarge on an IBM R40 laptop along with Knoppix (hd > install) and WinXP (for encrypted DVDs. > >> Well, ideally, the system should be stable enough not to need a reboot. >> If this is Etch, check for bug reports. >> >> If the hard drive is dying, there should be some errors in >> /var/log/syslog. Also, install smartmontools so that you can check the >> S.M.A.R.T. data on the drives. If smart tells you that the drive is >> failing then believe it. If it tells you that everything is fine, take >> it with a grain of salt. Always have good backups. >> >> Doug. >> >> > > why are you still running sarge?
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