Actually no. I'm not sure if I fully understand what hdparm does, even after
looking at the manpages. So I would say the answer is no, I did not pass the
drive any parameter. At least that I'm aware of.

Thanks,

Rafael.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) How do you fsck the root partition?


> By any chance, did you pass the IDE drive any parameters through hdparm?
>
> I'm TOLD it'll screw up data if you play too much.  Personally, I just
turn
> on DMA.
>
> Kev.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Rafael S�nchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 10:58 AM
> Subject: (clug-talk) How do you fsck the root partition?
>
>
> > 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:
> > ================start==========
> > >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
> >
> > ================ end ==========
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
> > j.rafael.s�nchez
> > Systems Administrator
> > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
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> >
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