Hi! a few days ago I wrote an article, but it never appeared on my local newsserver (although I got replies!), so I can't follow up to it. :-(
The thing is: I *am* getting desperate now. Every time, I reboot my linux box e2fsck finds massive errors. Often times somewhere under /usr/lib/terminfo. I have no idea what I could be doing wrong. I always shutdown my system with a proper shutdown or halt command. I tried to investigate the error a little more and found, that when I do "init 1" then "umount -a" and then "e2fsck /dev/sdb6" I already get a lot of errors. (see below). This happens no matter how long Linux was running or whether I started any large program or not. Here is a short description of my setup: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am using 2 x 2GB Quantum SCSI HDs on an Adaptec 2940 SCSI host. On the first there is a Win95, a Win3.11 partition and 2 FAT data partitions. At the very end of this HD there is the OS/2 Boot Manager. On the second HD, there is another Win 3.11 partition (primary partition) and the root, var and swap partitions for Linux. /home is a link to /var/home, /usr is on the root partition. Hm, did I forget anything important? Oh, yes, I've got the Debian 1.2.4 distribution installed. Here are the error messages I am seeing: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I boot I get this: /dev/sdb6 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Then e2fsck starts and often with this: blabla...check manually...blabla (sorry, don't remember the exact words) When I invoke e2fsck manually I get this: duplicate blocks found (inode 128523:4951) (different every time off course) (inode 136681:1491) /usr/lib/terminfo/d modified Dec 30th 96 /usr/lib/zoneinfo/America modified Dec 29th 96 etc. Then next time I mount the fs (after a reboot) I get this: /dev/sdb6 clean EXT2-fs error (device 08:16): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: wrong free inodes count in group0, stored 1668, counted 1667 EXT2-fs error (device 08:16): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: wrong free inodes count in superblock, stored 126360, counted 126359 BTW, /dev/sdb6 is my / partition. Please help me, I really don't feel like booting Linux anymore since afterwards I always have to fix all these errors. :-( Thanks so much in advance, Andy. PS: Followup set to: comp.os.linux.misc ____________________________________________________________________ Andy Spiegl, PhD Student, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~