From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:55:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([IPv6:::ffff:193.162.159.95]:37133 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:55:18 +0100 Received: from ekner.info (0x83a4a968.virnxx10.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [131.164.169.104]) by pasmtp.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38B1B4DB for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:55:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3E97018B.3435D14C@ekner.info> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:55:23 +0200 From: Hartvig Ekner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-19.7.x i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux MIPS mailing list Subject: ext3 problem solved Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1998 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: hartvig@ekner.info Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips I found out (sort of) what the problem was and found a fix. Apparantly there is something wrong with e2fsprogs 1.27, since it was unable to repair the problem I had in the filesystem (just kept repairing the same thing again and again). I took the disk and attached it to a x86 PC, and ran fsck.ext3 there (an older version, 1.26). It found exactly the same errors as the MIPS system, but actually fixed them so that subsequent runs with "-f" reported no errors. I then put the disk back on the MIPS system - voila, no more filesystem problems. Then did another unclean shutdown, and the same problem reappeared, and once again fsck (on MIPS) was unable to fix it. Then I downloaded e2fsprogs-1.32-6.mipsel.rpm from redhat 9, and installed that on my MIPS system. And that removed the problem for good. So the conclusion must be: The e2fsprogs-1.27 package which is part of the MIPS 7.3 RedHat distribution (CDROM and FTP) is broken. Don't leave home without a newer e2fsprogs RPM just in case! Thanks to everybody who replied! /Hartvig