Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Andrew wrote:
> Alan Robertson wrote:
>
>> Andrew wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using DRBD version 0.6.12. Having some troubles with EXT3
>>> reporting "attempt to access beyond end of device".
>>>
>>> I first noticed a problem when i tried to mkdir. :
>>>
>>> [root at jack www]$ mkdir test
>>> mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Input/output error
>>>
>>> I'm getting EXT3 errors in /var/log/messages such as :
>>>
>>> Sep 17 11:15:20 jack kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
>>> Sep 17 11:15:20 jack kernel: 2b:00: rw=0, want=100270088,
>>> limit=100179416
>>> Sep 17 11:15:20 jack kernel: EXT3-fs error (device drbd(43,0)):
>>> read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode bitmap - block_group = 765,
>>> inode_bitmap = 25067521
>>> Sep 17 11:15:20 jack kernel: EXT3-fs error (device drbd(43,0)) in
>>> ext3_new_inode: IO failure
>>>
>>> [root at jack nai2]# df -k /data/
>>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/nb0 100179416 5002344 90088204 6% /data
>>>
>>> [root at jack nai2]# /sbin/fdisk -s /dev/nb0
>>> 100179416
>>>
>>> in drbd.conf:
>>> disk-size = 100179416k
>>>
>>> So i'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas on what might be wrong ?
>>
>>
>>
>> It might be corrupted.
>>
>> When did you last run fsck on it?
>>
>>
> would have been a fair while .... maybe 3-4 months.... should I give
> fsck a go? any particular options I should use with fsck ?
Not that I know of.
If taking this system down is difficult, you could even do an fsck -n with
it mounted. It might produce errors, but if you do it several times, and
each time it gives the same errors, then it's probably worth unmounting it
and checking it out the right way.
--
Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>
"Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim
from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce