> for the second time in a few days, my /home filesystemYes I did. I got it two days in a row. It turns out that it was DMA disk errors.
> (/dev/fc5/home, the name being a holdover when i was running FC5 under
> LVM2 on this system) magically reverted to "read-only" status, forcing
> me to reboot, at which point i was told:
>
"Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list were
> found."
> requiring e2fsck to fix all sorts of apparent corruption.
> once is a bit weird, twice is a definite pattern. has anyone else
> seen this lately? kernel is 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6.
The kernel then remount the disk read only.
Use smartmontools to check your disk status:
sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hdx
There must be some errors logged.
The cause? Who knows ....
Power supply, old disk, bad stabilizer, bad luck, etc ....
/Paulo Roma
