Ryan Armstrong on Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:49:49 +0200


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Re: Error message


Thanks Evan ...

How would I know which drive is going?
>From the tty number, or from the inodes given in the warning...
Evan Summers wrote:
> 
> >   Jan 19 01:05:31 osiris kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:41):
> > ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 26428
> 
> Looks like the hard drive is on the way out! I would back up certainly,
> and swop in a new hard drive as soon as you can. Probably the best way to
> do it is to put in a new HDD, partition eg. first partition / of 500Mb for
> root fs, rest in /u for (/home, /opt, /usr/local). Backup your
> data into /u, and install a new system on the / partition
> of the new drive.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Evan
> 
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