Hi, On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:43:27PM +0000, Matthew Dickinson wrote: > RedHat 7.2, ext3 on /, kernel 2.4.18p1. > > whilst updatedb was running, i had these messages appear... > > Jan 6 22:18:42 jaguar kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): > ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #147553: rec_len %% 4 != 0 - > offset=0, inode=1651076143, rec_len=19527, name_len=85 > Jan 6 22:18:42 jaguar kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): > ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #50619: rec_len is too small for > name_len - offset=0, inode=574907, rec_len=12, name_len=9 > Jan 6 22:18:43 jaguar kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): > ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #341627: rec_len is too small for > name_len - offset=0, inode=865915, rec_len=12, name_len=9 > > i'm suspicious i have a hard disk error (it's a new laptop that's less > than a month old) and i wouldn't mind proof! Quite possibly. I'd do a forced fsck and see if the disk really has errors, or if it's simply a read error. Are there any other sorts of errors in the logs? Cheers, Stephen
