From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:14:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:14:02 -0500 Received: from gbmail.cc.gettysburg.edu ([138.234.4.100]:18909 "EHLO gettysburg.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:14:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:21:32 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: attempt to access beyond end of device Message-ID: <20021206052132.GA3952@perseus.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Justin Pryzby Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Before anyone asks, no my disk is not full: pryzbyj@perseus:/usr/src/penguin$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 3.7G 1.1G 2.5G 31% / /dev/hda3 19G 349M 18G 2% /home /dev/hda4 14G 1.5G 12G 12% /usr/src Sizes shouldn't have changed by more than 01% since I got the error. Interesting: rerunning `updatedb --localuser=nobody 2>/dev/null` fails to reproduce the error. Is the error possibly the result of filesystem corruption? I imagine that each directory has a pointer to the disk location of each of its member files; if that pointer were larger than the disk size, would this error be the result? If this is the result of filesystem corruption, it is not necessarily a problem with ext3 or some othersuch, as I have done some *hard* shutdowns recently (read: control-alt-backspace on a sis motherboard). Justin