[SWLUG] Strange Harddisk Problem

[bascule]

have you tried running e2fsck with the 'bad blocks' option '-c' iirc?

bascule

On Saturday 16 March 2002 11:23 am, you wrote:
> 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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