Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. I'm just back on this list, so missed the beginning of this thread. is this the same problem I'm getting with fsck errors on reboot? I don't think so. Mike --

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. I generally hate top-posting too, unless I'm replying to nothing specific in the previous post. the idea being that people don't have to wade through the rest of the message thread to see that my

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. open mouth, insert keyboard. on reviewing some of my other posts, I see that I've been doing a lot of top-posting since I came back to this list. ah well... not for lack of good intent. ;) A

ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
Hello everybody I am experiencing a strange problem with ext3 partitions. I have several computers running unstable and they started having troubles with partitions. Disks get corrupted all the time. When it happened on one of the computers, I thought it was a drive problem, but on several at the

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 12:42, Z F wrote: Hello everybody I am experiencing a strange problem with ext3 partitions. I have several computers running unstable and they started having troubles with partitions. Disks get corrupted all the time. When it happened on one of the computers, I

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: A slim possibility is that you have acpi enabled on an nforce2 chipset. If thats the case, either shut it off, or go upgrade the bios to the latest as that fixed some other, non-disk related problems that several of us have had with that chipset. I subscribe to three

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
On one system acpi is on, on others I do not remember, but I think is on too. (will check). but non of the systems have nforce2 :-) More over everything was fine for a long time. The kernel is at least several months old (custom compile). The other packages were upgraded recently. Lazar Z F

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 13:20, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: A slim possibility is that you have acpi enabled on an nforce2 chipset. If thats the case, either shut it off, or go upgrade the bios to the latest as that fixed some other, non-disk related problems that several of us

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Z F
I have no complains regarding how linux implements support for different features. I have some idea how hard it is even if you have all documentation (because documentations contain erros, I know it from my own experience). When you do not have documentation --- it is much much harder. What

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
I'm just back on this list, so missed the beginning of this thread. is this the same problem I'm getting with fsck errors on reboot? errors look like this /dev/hda3: Superblock last mount time is in the future /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY If so, I think its an