Hi all, I am a guitar player. I have a hardware engineering background but I am not a sys admin. I use computers as tools. Gentoo has been the most stable and day to day productive tool I've ever used.
That said, I seem to have file system problems on my external 1394 hard drives. I do not know if this is due to a recent move to 2.6.17-rt1, or bad maintenance on my part, or just bad luck. I've noticed over the last couple of days that when using Aqualung (a non-portage music player) I was getting some strange results. Songs that used to work not working, strange timing, etc. Just weird stuff. This evening, for no good reason since I don't know what I am doing, I decided to run fsck and let it look around and fix things if it wanted to. I wouldn't know how to do any better. At the end of this I wondered if there is really any value to a journaled file system? Did it protect me? I cannot tell. Here is how these drives are mounted: LABEL=music /home/mark/music ext3 rw,noauto,user 0 0 LABEL=audio1_94b /home/mark/Audio/audio1 ext3 rw,noauto,user 0 0 Both partitions are on external 1394 drives, but not the same drives. Following down below are the sorts of problems I found using fsck. The problem is it it didn't fix most of the problems I found with the failing songs. Two seem to play now but the rest do not. Did the journal dot work? Did I do something wrong? NOTE: The two Porcupine Tree tracks do not play so they seem to be damaged. Thanks, Mark lightning ~ # fsck /dev/sdb1 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) audio1_94b has been mounted 57 times without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity /lost+found not found. Create<y>? no Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information audio1_94b: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** audio1_94b: 1492/3662848 files (19.1% non-contiguous), 4014481/7325632 blocks lightning ~ # lightning ~ # fsck /dev/sdc1 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) music: recovering journal music contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Inode 6115654 has illegal block(s). Clear<y>? yes Illegal block #1036 (1376776629) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1037 (1927720517) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1038 (2407185755) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1039 (3472556839) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1040 (2208668609) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1041 (3293443330) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1042 (375135243) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1043 (1249063009) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1044 (1201632328) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1045 (2618458457) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Illegal block #1046 (3116863600) in inode 6115654. CLEARED. Too many illegal blocks in inode 6115654. Clear inode<y>? yes Error reading block 12279239 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while reading indirect blocks of inode 6115655. Ignore error<y>? yes Force rewrite<y>? yes Inode 6115655 has illegal block(s). Clear<y>? yes Illegal block #1036 (937597786) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1037 (2426970144) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1038 (2863076451) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1039 (2251569750) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1040 (1393869746) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1041 (382868669) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1042 (1149983442) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1043 (4028337212) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1044 (1162660121) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1045 (1576522261) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Illegal block #1046 (2289199545) in inode 6115655. CLEARED. Too many illegal blocks in inode 6115655. Clear inode<y>? yes Restarting e2fsck from the beginning... music contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Error reading block 1531447 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while reading indirect blocks of inode 719553. Ignore error<y>? yes Force rewrite<y>? yes Inode 719553, i_blocks is 16144, should be 8304. Fix<y>? yes Running additional passes to resolve blocks claimed by more than one inode... Pass 1B: Rescanning for multiply-claimed blocks Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 719554: 1532443 Pass 1C: Scanning directories for inodes with multiply-claimed blocks. Pass 1D: Reconciling multiply-claimed blocks (There are 1 inodes containing multiply-claimed blocks.) File /Christmas CDs/Star Bright (Vanessa Williams)/11 - Go Tell It On The Mountain.ogg (inode #719554, mod time Fri Jan 28 14:51:35 2005) has 1 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s): Multiply-claimed blocks already reassigned or cloned. Pass 2: Checking directory structure Entry '09 - Every Home Is Wired.ogg' in /Porcupine Tree/Signify (6115649) has deleted/unused inode 6115654. Clear<y>? yes Entry '02 - Signify.ogg' in /Porcupine Tree/Signify (6115649) has deleted/unused inode 6115655. Clear<y>? yes Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Block bitmap differences: -(1531448--1532427) -1532441 -(12277546--12280396) Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #46 (0, counted=981). Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #374 (2884, counted=5735). Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong (2464583, counted=2468415). Fix<y>? yes Inode bitmap differences: -(6115654--6115655) Fix<y>? yes Free inodes count wrong for group #374 (16328, counted=16330). Fix<y>? yes Free inodes count wrong (7317173, counted=7317175). Fix<y>? yes music: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** music: 8521/7325696 files (15.2% non-contiguous), 12182857/14651272 blocks lightning ~ # -- [email protected] mailing list
