On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:49:57PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: > For the following 3 errors I think the last 2 are related to the fact, > that I'm booting a Gentoo Linux (kernel 3.7.1) from an external USB 2.0 drive, > but the first error, is that related too to the external drive itslef ? : > > 2013-01-03T16:28:04.305+01:00 n22 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device sdb3): ext4_free_inode:319: comm krunner: bit already cleared for inode 6293718 > 2013-01-03T16:28:07.426+01:00 n22 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device sdb3) in ext4_new_inode:942: IO failure > 2013-01-03T16:28:10.683+01:00 n22 kernel: EXT4-fs error (device sdb3) in ext4_new_inode:942: IO failure Well, what the error message means is that the kernel has detected an inconsistency in the inode allocation bitmap. Could this be called by an error to the external drive? Certainly. It could also be caused by the drive getting pulled before it was cleanly unmounted at some point in the past, and (especially if this drive was using flash) the inode allocation bitmap got corrupted. -- Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
