[ale] ext3 errors

[John Wells]

I installed a new (used) harddrive yesterday on our
ftp server.  To install, I fdisked it to type 83 and
the ran mke2fs -j on it.

Worked fine yesterday, but today I'm getting errors
like the ones at the end of the email when trying to
cd or ls.  Do these indicate a bad drive, or do I need
to repair it in some way?  I've tried unmounting it
and running e2fsck on it, but I get "Attempt to read
block from filesystem resulted in short read while
trying to open /dev/hdb1.  Could this be a zero length
partition?". Hmmm...just tried to mount it, and now
it's asking for a filesystem type.  It seems I've just
witnessed the death of a filesystem ;-)...

Thanks for the help.  - John

V Error Messages V

EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)) in
ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_get_inode_loc:
unable to read inode block - inode=193153,
block=393220                                          
       
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)) in
ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure       
rh72_disk1  
rh72_disk2  
various
[root at garcia pub]# cd rh72_disk1/RedHat/RPMS          
        
[root at garcia RPMS]# ls
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_readdir:
directory #241441 contains a hole at offset 0
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_readdir:
directory #241441 contains a hole at offset 4096      
                                                      
 
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_readdir:
directory #241441 contains a hole at offset 8192      
                                                      
 
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_readdir:
directory #241441 contains a hole at offset 12288     
                                                      
 
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_readdir:
directory #241441 contains a hole at offset 16384     
                                                      
 
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_readdir:
directory #241441 contains a hole at offset 20480     
                                                      
 
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_readdir:
directory #241441 contains a hole at offset 24576     
                                                      
 
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_get_inode_loc:
unable to read inode block - inode=241441,
block=491524                                          
       
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)) in
ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure       
[root at garcia RPMS]#



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