fsck problem

fsck problem

[Michael Cuffaro]

Hi,

Note:  I'm not subscribed to the list so please reply
to me personally at Michael.Cuffaro@ericsson.ca

Not very long ago (about a week) my Linux system
crashed.  After it came up again I got the message:
"Special (device/socket/fifo) inode 260915 has
non-zero size. FIXED."

Great, I thought.  Unfortunately I get the message
every time fsck runs (or rather is forced to run)
after boot.  I shutdown using "shutdown -F -r now" and
get the exact same message every time.  

I've tried booting with the rescue disk and running
fsck on the filesystem twice in a row.  This works
without error, but the next time I boot up the system
normally (with the -F flag) I get the error again.

I'm using fsck 1.27 and the filesystem I'm having
problems with is the root filesystem (ext2).

Any ideas?

thanks,
-Mike


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Re: fsck problem

[rich+ml]

FWIW I've seen this on machines with flaky ram. If this is x86 box, try
testing with memtest86, see www.memtest86.com.

== Rich

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Michael Cuffaro wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:48:38 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Michael Cuffaro <m_cuffa@yahoo.com>
> To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: fsck problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Note:  I'm not subscribed to the list so please reply
> to me personally at Michael.Cuffaro@ericsson.ca
> 
> Not very long ago (about a week) my Linux system
> crashed.  After it came up again I got the message:
> "Special (device/socket/fifo) inode 260915 has
> non-zero size. FIXED."
> 
> Great, I thought.  Unfortunately I get the message
> every time fsck runs (or rather is forced to run)
> after boot.  I shutdown using "shutdown -F -r now" and
> get the exact same message every time.  
> 
> I've tried booting with the rescue disk and running
> fsck on the filesystem twice in a row.  This works
> without error, but the next time I boot up the system
> normally (with the -F flag) I get the error again.
> 
> I'm using fsck 1.27 and the filesystem I'm having
> problems with is the root filesystem (ext2).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> -Mike
> 
> 
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