Hi,
I have a 10 Gbytes hard disk on which the last partition /dev/hda4 is
mounted root on kernel 2.2.13.
Lately I have been close to fill that partition and since then the
following messages regularly get logged:
May 23 02:08:56 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
May 23 02:08:56 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
May 23 02:08:56 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04
(hda), sector 12160946
May 23 02:08:56 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
May 23 02:08:56 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
May 23 02:08:56 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
May 23 02:08:56 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
May 23 02:08:56 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success
I tried to boot on floppy and run e2fsck, but this didn't solve the
problem. I got errors like "Attempt ... resulted in a short read" and if
I answered No to "Ignore?" I was just sent back to the shell. I could
fix some other errors and clean the file system however.
I remember I fighted hard to partition the disk without losing space
despite the 1024 cylinder boundary, but maybe I did something wrong.
Now if I run "fdisk -l" I get for hda4:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 457 3670821 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 458 460 20664 83 Linux native
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hda3 460 476 131544 82 Linux swap
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hda4 476 1234 6080760 83 Linux native
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
I've read somewhere that cylinder boundaries did not mean a lot on
modern disks, so I did not worry about that.
I can still work, but I begin to be afraid to lose data.
Any hint welcome...
--
Alexandre Oberlin
http://www.altern.org/ao
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