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SubjectRe: need multiple e2fsck runs
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Harald Koenig wrote:
> last night I got another ext2 fs corruption with 2.2.10 which showed up
> in syslog first with many

[...]
> Free blocks count wrong for group #235 (2175, counted=2176).
[...]
> Free blocks count wrong for group #235 (2176, counted=2175).
[...]
> Free blocks count wrong for group #89 (96, counted=97).
[...]
> Free blocks count wrong for group #89 (97, counted=96).

It seems that there are bits falling over in memory on your
machine. So fsck counts the bits in a bitmap block, and comes one
short. THen it erroneously corrects the master count, and corrects
the miscorrection on the next run.

Roger.

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