Hi all,

Thanks in advance for any attention you lend to this request for help.
How do you file-system-check the root partition (/) when it appears that
it's always mounted even in single-mode?

The reason I'm asking this question is that a day and a half ago, I replaced
the power supply on one of my servers. I had a master and a slave ide disks
(and other scsi ones). I removed the slave one because it was not even
mounted. Twelve hours later, it starting acting kind of funny. I discovered
that noone could login to the system because /etc/exports was there but the
system was not exporting any file systems.

When I looked at the /etc/exports file, there was a bunch or junk at the
end, like @ signs and stuff. Luckily I had a backup of it to replace it.
There was another configuration file which showed the same behaviour, namely
/etc/printcap. Again I had a backup copy to use.

Things seem to be normal on the surface, except that I'm getting some error
messages.Here's some of them from dmesg:
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>dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768684544
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768685568
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768686592
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768687616
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768688640
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768689664
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768690688
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768691712
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768692736
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768693760
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768694784
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768695808
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768696832
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768697856
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768698880
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768699904
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768700928
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768701952
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768702976
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768704000
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768705024
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768706048
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768707072
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768708096
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768709120
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768710144
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=1701999989, limit=265041
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=1701999988 sector=-890967320 size=1024
count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #48219 contains a
hole at offset 1768711168
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
#56306: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=606087727, rec_len=25673,
name_len=58
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
#56308: directory entry across blocks - offset=0, inode=1699881006,
rec_len=26980, name_len=115
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
#56310: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=1701409364, rec_len=8307,
name_len=116
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
#56311: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=1700754537, rec_len=28781,
name_len=116
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
#38162: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=673212009, rec_len=26401,
name_len=101
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared
for block 254658

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You problably don't need it all, but here you have it.

At first look I thought that I maybe switched hard drives on myself, in the
exitement of the moment, but I double check jumpers, as well as data that
I'd added just recently to some httpd folders and this is the right master
drive.

I can also tell that it's talking about /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5 partitions
(slash and /tmp mount points respectively)

Is there anything you can make out of this?

Much appreciated in advance.



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