Re: attempt to access beyond end of device

[Thomas Steudten <alpha@steudten.com>]

Humm, is it possible, that the device was a floppy?
ls -l /dev/fd0* or cat /proc/devices show you, that
the block device 2:0 is the floppy device.
Check this first.
>>Try fsck.ext2 (or fsck) with -fvn <your root device eg /dev/hda1>.
>>-n tests in read-only mode.
>>
> 
> 
> Ok, here there's the result:
> 
> fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
> e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
> Warning!  /dev/hda1 is mounted.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> 
>       30 inodes used (1%)
>        1 non-contiguous inodes (3.3%)
>          # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 10/6/0
>     6937 blocks used (86%)
>        0 bad blocks
>        0 large files
> 
>       18 regular files
>        2 directories
>        0 character device files
>        0 block device files
>        0 fifos
>        0 links
>        1 symbolic links (1 fast symbolic links)
>        0 sockets
> --------
>       21 files
> 
> it seems correct, isn't it? I've tried also to dd to /dev/null and it worked 
> well:
> 16002+0 records in
> 16002+0 records out
> 8193024 bytes transferred in 0.454885 seconds (18011202 bytes/sec)
> 
> any idea?
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 
> 
> 

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Tom

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