Re: ext2_free_block already cleared for block xxxx

Jeff Voskamp (jeff@bifrost.voskamp.waterloo.on.ca)
Fri, 4 Jul 1997 17:14:39 -0400 (EDT)


> Hello, People !
>
>Could you please say, what does this mean:
>Jul 4 21:54:41 hydroel kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:41):
>ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 370367
>
>At first, what is "03:41" ? I always thought here have to be major:minor
>device number, but 3:41 is ttyr9....
>
>Anyway, I checked all my file systems and found no errors... Now it pops ip
>in my log very often......
>
>Can somebody help ?
>
>Bye.

03:41 is in hexidecimal. It's also a block device. This makes it
/dev/hdb1. try unmounting that and forcing a fsck on it.

Jeff Voskamp