[ale] Drive/Filesystem problem...

[Robert L. Harris]

He says he didn't.  He's done it enough times also to know better.  Says he 
just unmounted it re-formatted and then fsck'd before he re-mounted and still
does it.

Thus spake Christopher Fowler (cfowler at aimgroup.com):

> Did you do this wile the fs was mounted?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Robert L.
> Harris
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 10:19 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Drive/Filesystem problem...
> 
> 
> 
> Hey all,
>   I have a friend setting up a dataware house and I convinced him to
> put it on a Linux box.  Right now it's not critical so we're just
> testing bandwidth, etc.  At any point, he has a 40 Gig drive in
> it and wants to keep it as a 40Gig disk, not a collection of 4s, etc...
> He is having some problems.  Here is the output he sent me:
> 
> 
> > EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
> > blocks count for group 0, stored = 31727, counted = 31740
> > EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
> > blocks count for group 53, stored = 31740, counted = 9202
> > EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
> > blocks count in super block, stored = 9689889, counted = 9667364
> > EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free
> > inodes count in group 0, stored = 32693, counted = 32704
> > EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free
> > inodes count in super block, stored = 10007413, counted = 10007424
> >
> > Those are my main errors.  I get a lot of inode errors also.  And a ton of
> > errors if I do an fsck.
> >
> > The physical geometry of the drive is 16383,16,63, which is what ever
> drive
> > 18gig is set to.
> >
> > The LBA geometry of the drive is 4982,255,63.  I calculated this myself.
> >
> > The computer is a PII-233 not overclocked using a tekram P6L40-A4 or
> > P6L40-A4X Motherboard.  I know there are bios upgrades for this
> motherboard,
> > but I don't know if they fix this problem.
> >
> > The harddrive is a 40gig maxtor model 94098U8.
> >
> > It partitions, and formats fine, but then after the format if I try to
> mount
> > it, it gives me errors like the one above.
> 
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?  We need to hammer this out quickly or his boss will
> start pushing for NT again.
> 
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> Robert L. Harris                |   "A person is smart;
> Senior System Engineer          |        People are dumb, panicky
>   R&D Consulting.               \_            dangerous animals"  - Agent K
> 
> 
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> 
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> 
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
> 

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Robert L. Harris                |   "A person is smart;
Senior System Engineer          |        People are dumb, panicky
  R&D Consulting.               \_            dangerous animals"  - Agent K  


http://www.rnd-consulting.com/~nomad

DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.

FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'