Yous gots a bad drive... (or possibly controller)
Those messages are all inode errors, which means that the FATs don't jibe
with what's on the drive... lost+found is some extra space that unices set
aside for when the drive gets full. there should be nothing in there unless
the drive is filled. that something _does_ show up in there seems
indicative that you've got real problems.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Human [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 3:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RH 6.2 goes bonkers in 2 days!!!
>
> Hello RH Guru's:
>
> I sure hope you can help me with this one. Last week I installed a WD
> Caviar 102AA 10 gig hard drive and made four partitions: hdc1 four gig,
> hdc2 100 meg, hdc3 three gig, and hdc4 three gig. I installed RH 6.2 on
> hdc1 and used hdc2 for the swap file. The drives hda and hdb are used
> for DOS and Win95.
>
> After a two days on boot up I get a prompt to enter root password for
> maintenance to run fsck manually. When I do, I get a series of errors
> for inodes 2 through 283692:
>
> Inode xxxxx has imagic flag set. Clear <y>?
> Inode xxxxx is in use, but has dtime set. Fix <y>?
> Inode xxxxx has illegal block(s). Clear <y>?
> Inode xxxxx ref count is x, should be x. Fix <y>?
> i_fsize for inode xxxxx (...) is xxx, should be xxx. Clear <y>?
> Inode xxxxx (...) has a bad mode (xxxxx). Clear <y>?
> i_frag for inode xxxxx (...) is xxx, should be xxx. Clear <y>?
> i_faddr for inode xxxxx (...) is xxx, should be xxx. Clear <y>?
>
> After ~ 40 minutes of holding the 'Y' key down, fsck reports the fs is
> currupted and is automatically restarting and I spend another ~40
> minutes holding the 'Y' key down. Upon completion, shut down and reboot.
> RH does start and prompts for login. After login, RH seems to work
> slugishly and some things don't work anymore. Checking the /lost + found
> dir reveals ~16 screens of numbers in various colors, dark blue, yellow,
> brown, etc. I assume these were put here by fsck.
>
> The first time this happened I just blew of RH and formatted the
> partition and installed again from CD. Now it's happened again.
>
> Can anyone tell me what is happening and perhaps why and possibly a
> path/ method to fixing it permanetly?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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