From: Alexander Otterbein (prale@prale.rhoen.sub.org)
Date: 09/13/93


From: prale@prale.rhoen.sub.org (Alexander Otterbein)
Subject: Re: ext2_new_block: unable to locate free bit
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 23:33:35 GMT

In article <CD98DK.7KG@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> lmulcah@lookout.mtt.it.uswc.uswest.com (Larry "Bob" Mulcahy) writes:
>Lately I'm having big problems with the ext2fs. 10-20 times a day my
>system coughs up the message
>
> ext2_new_block: Unable to locate free bit in block group 115
>

I'm having the same problem. The only difference is that the group at
my system is 12 instead of 115.

>generally as it's receiving news via uucp. I can run a full e2fsck
>(-afv or -acfv) right after getting several of these errors and it
>detects nothing wrong.
>

It happens if I have less than 2 MByte free on my root-partition.
I think it is something like fragmentation ...
Could that be possible ?

Ciao...
   Alex.

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