2005-09-06 06:51:17

by Riccardo Castellani

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Subject: Re: EXT3-fs error (device hda8): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocksnot in datazone

I run memtest86 and It gives errors.
I removed the installed 256 MB RAM of 512 MB and now PC works.

thanks


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <[email protected]>
To: "Riccardo Castellani" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Stephen Tweedie" <[email protected]>; "linux-kernel"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: EXT3-fs error (device hda8): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing
blocksnot in datazone


> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 17:24, Riccardo Castellani wrote:
>> I'm using FC3 with Kernel 2.6.12-1.1376.
>> After few hours file system on /dev/hda8 EXT3 partition has a problem so
>> it
>> remounted in only read mode.
>
>> Sep 5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda8):
>> ext3_free_blocks:
>> Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 134217728, count = 1
>
> That block number is 0x8000000 in hex. It's a single-bit flip error;
> that strongly sounds like hardware, and I'd run memtest86 on that box
> next.
>
>> Sep 5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: Aborting journal on device hda8.
>> Sep 5 17:34:40 mrtg kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda8) in
>> ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
> ...
>
>> I tried several times to run fsck on this partition and I also tried to
>> remount fs in a new partition, but it happened nothing !
>
> What do you mean? fsck found nothing wrong? remount failed? You _did_
> unmount before fscking, did you?
>
> --Stephen
>>
>