Re: EXT3-fs error (device hda8): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocksnot in datazone

From: Stephen C. Tweedie
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 13:22:16 EST


Hi,

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 17:24, Riccardo Castellani wrote:
> I'm using FC3 with Kernel 2.6.12-1.1376.
> After few hours file system on /dev/hda8 EXT3 partition has a problem so it
> remounted in only read mode.

> Sep 5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda8): ext3_free_blocks:
> Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 134217728, count = 1

That block number is 0x8000000 in hex. It's a single-bit flip error;
that strongly sounds like hardware, and I'd run memtest86 on that box
next.

> Sep 5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: Aborting journal on device hda8.
> Sep 5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda8) in
> ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
...

> I tried several times to run fsck on this partition and I also tried to
> remount fs in a new partition, but it happened nothing !

What do you mean? fsck found nothing wrong? remount failed? You _did_
unmount before fscking, did you?

--Stephen
>

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