Re: help_with_fsck

["Koree A. Smith" <koree@accessus.net>]

I've also seen this happen on a system with a partition larger than 2.1 GB.
In fact, it was my system, and caused all kinds of nasty things.  I don't know
if this is the case with you though.

Koree

 On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Matthew Walker
wrote:

> 
> Basically, it sounds ike your hard drive is dying.  Probably about all 
> you can do is boot itup and get any really important stuff off of that 
> drive before it croaks altogether.  As far as the missing files, 
> hopefully you have backups or they were either part of the original 
> installation or unimportant... if they were important, sorry :-(
> 
> I would definitely get another hard drive and move everything over ASAP
> 
> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Michael C. Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > My system is down. I am not at all knowledgable about
> > system administration. We (Math Dpet at SIUC) do not 
> > have technical support staff. Here is what has happened:
> > 
> > Event 1)
> > While taring a file I got this message:
> > 
> > Message from sysloggd@nkrs465 at Mon ...1997
> > nkrs465 kernel: kernal panic: EXT2-fs panic
> > (device 03:03): ext2_write_inode:
> > unable to read i-node block-inode=87841,
> > block=35227
> > 
> > Further, all files and directories are now read only.
> > 
> > I rebooted and ran fsck. I followed the default options
> > and the system came up ok, but several files where missing.
> > 
> > Event 2)
> > While compressing a postscript file I got the same error
> > message from the kernal.
> > 
> > I tried rebooting and running fsck again. This time I was afraid
> > to follow the default options. I quickly became lost. It (fsck) 
> > would keep asking the same round of questions no matter what
> > may replies were. I got out of fsck and turned the machine
> > off for fear of really messing things up.
> > 
> > 
> > The message is coming from another account at Northwestern Univ.
> > Feel free to call me at 453-6517 or to reply by e-mail. I'll
> > send out a note when it is fixed. The area code is 618 in Carbondale.
> > 
> > Mike Sullivan
> > Math Dept
> > SIUC
> > 
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Koree A. Smith
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