[Sluglug] Partition Question

[Ignacio Solis]

* Erich (eblume at ucsc.edu) said:
> That seemed so incredibly dangerous that I didn't even think about doing it.
> Also, I should note that that error doesn't always show up (the
> non-contiguous error). So here're my questions: 1) What exactly is going on
> here? 2) Do I need to fix it? 3) How?

You probably rebooted the computer without shuting down or had a power outage.
Ext3 is journaled, so that means it will be able to achieve a consistend state,
but you can still leave some files in unstable stages, so you need to clean up
the remains.  Boot in single user mode/read-only and to a fsck on your
partition. (or just unmounted and do an fsck).

You can also just tell the system to check the fs at next boot. 
Run:
  tune2fs -l /dev/hda3 | grep count

See what the maximum mount count is, (maybe it's set to 0?). Then set the Mount
count to the same number and reboot, the filesystem will then be checked.
For example, if the maximum mount count is 30 you can run:

tune2fs -C 31 /dev/hda3 


Nacho

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