On Jan 18, 2006 10:11 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Tks for your advice. The file is attached to this posting. It is pretty clear that there is some type of single-bit corruption with your disk: 000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 * 000400 0009f400 0013e0e1 0000fc8b 000ef82c 000410 0009a4c4 00000000 00000002 00000002 000420 00008000 00008000 00003dc0 43cc70d6 000430 43cc76cc 02250015 0203ef53 02000201 000440 43ad2a1a 02ed4e00 02000200 02000201 000450 02000200 0200020b 02000280 02000204 000460 02000206 02000201 2be35aee d34ae63d 000470 6eeb1bb3 c368ff68 02000200 02000200 000480 02000200 02000200 02000200 02000200 * 0004e0 02000208 02000200 02000200 5a46b3f1 0004f0 87471f23 6f6ed694 87f63eb6 02000302 000500 02000200 02000200 43ad2a1a 02000207 000510 02000208 02000209 0200020a 0200020b 000520 0200020c 0200020d 0200020e 0200020f 000530 02000210 02000211 02000212 02000213 000540 02000614 02000200 02000200 02000200 000550 02000200 02000200 02000200 02000200 * 001000 Note that all of the "02000200" bits are set for most of the superblock. I'd suspect either something bad in the controller or maybe a cable. If this is present throughout the disk then there is nothing that can be done about it, except restore from backup. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users