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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:11:42 -0800
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To: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
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John McCutchan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I got this in my kern.log file:
> 
> Feb 20 00:41:00 golbez kernel: ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone
> - block = 538082710, count = 1
> 
> What could be the cause of this?
> 

Bad things.   Something somewhere has corrupted in-core or
on-disk allocation tables.

Any time anything like this comes out of a filesystem,  it's
time to shut everything off and run fsck.

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