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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: fs errors on thinkpad R31
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:32:46 +0300
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Hello!

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:20:48PM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:

> this is the second time within 14 days after which I had to run reiserfsck on 
> my IBM Thinkpad R31.
> This time I lost a directory with 49 files (it seems it were only kernel 
> modules, so probably not so important data).
> I have attached the error messages from the /var/log/messages file.

Hm. Looks like some blocks have unexpected contents.
Do you often uncleanly turn-off/run out of battaries prior to
corruption?
Try to disable write caching in your harddrive then. (hdparm -W0 /dev/hda)

Bye,
    Oleg