From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Inode/Zone count errors with ext fs Date: 17 Nov 1992 22:16:00 GMT
In article <1992Nov14.151002.23536@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, wyvern@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern) writes:
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| I recently upgraded to Linux v0.98pl4. Everything seems to work great,
| except for some strange errors I'm receiving from efsck for my ext fs
| partition. After reboot I did an efsck /dev/hda4 and got these errors:
| Free inodes count wrong (13193, counted=13194).
| Free zones count wrong (36297, counted=36317).
| efsck -r doesn't seem to fix the problem - I've tried it several times.
| Is there any way to get rid of these errors short of remaking the whole
| filesystem?
On most version of UNIX and its clones, an fsck on an active f/s is
likely to produce some warnings. The suggested way to do it is to
unmount the f/s before checking. On Linux this means boot from floppy
for the root partition.
I do this for backup of some systems, too. All partitions other than
root are backed up unmounted in single user mode, root is backed up
booted from another partition (need not be floppy). Of course I do
running dumps of stuff, too, but the dumps I really trust are done on an
unmounted f/s.
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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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