On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Marc Peiser wrote:
>I'm running Slackware 4.0 on a 18Gb SCSI Disk. The machine went down and I
>found these errors in the syslog file. I ran fsck -f /dev/sda3 but it
>didn't find any errors. I also upgraded the kernel from 2.2.10 to 2.2.14
>and everything seems to be ok now. But I really need to know what this
>means. Does anyone know?
Does the below errors happened after after you ugpraded to 2.2.14?
>Jan 10 02:33:36 eric kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,3)):
>ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 791624304,
>count = 1
>Jan 10 02:33:36 eric kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,3)):
>ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 779581303,
>count = 1
>Jan 10 02:33:36 eric kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,3)):
>ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1886349427,
>count = 1
>Jan 10 02:33:36 eric kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,3)): A
>ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1918987635,
>count = 1
That means somebody tried to mark a metadata block as free. ext2 prevents
this and printk a warning. It means some severe fs corruption is going on.
Andrea
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