[SWLUG] Strange Harddisk Problem

[Philip Rodrigues]

Hi all,
A couple of weeks ago, I converted one of my ext2fs partitions to windows with 
fdisk (I needed the space for windows temporarily). This worked fine, but 
when I booted back to my main linux/ext2 partition (which I'm pretty sure I 
didn't touch with fdisk), bad things happened. The long and short of it is 
that a lot of data got corrupted, but by installing another distro onto the 
partition I originally changed, I managed to get a working system back on my 
main linux partition.
	The problem now is that every time I switch the computer on and boot into 
linux, mount tells me that the root filesystem has errors, it runs e2fsck, 
and decides it can't fix the errors. I then get put into "filesystem repair 
mode" and run e2fsck on the partition. This produces three errors (the same 
each time, reproduced below), "fixes" them, I reboot, and the system starts 
up without problems. However, this procedure is repeated each time I boot up 
from having the system switched off.
	Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this, how I could go about 
fixing it, or where else I could ask?
TIA,
PhilRod

e2fsck errors:

Pass 2: Checking Directory structure

Directory inode 145467 block 9 offset 4092
Directory corrupted.
Salvage <y>?

Directory inode 143482 block 7 offset 4092
Directory corrupted.
Salvage <y>?

Directory inode 142060 block 8 offset 4092
Directory corrupted.
Salvage <y>?


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