2.5: ext3 warning messages

Diego Calleja García (diegocg@teleline.es)
Sat, 3 May 2003 15:20:18 +0200


After running the last nigh 2.5.67, i switched to 2.5.68-mm2 this morning;
I got the following messages:

May 3 13:11:19 estel kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed
May 3 13:11:19 estel kernel: Adding 530104k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1
May 3 13:11:19 estel kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.16, 02 Dec 2001 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
May 3 13:11:19 estel kernel: EXT3-fs warning (device ide0(3,5)): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file (228996), 0
May 3 13:11:21 estel kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
May 3 13:11:21 estel kernel: lp0: console ready
May 3 13:11:23 estel kernel: EXT3-fs warning (device ide0(3,5)): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file (229076), 0
May 3 13:11:33 estel kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
May 3 13:11:33 estel kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.

I rebooted and run fsck:
(copied at hand, so text format shouldn't be correct)

fsck 1.33 (21 Apr-2003)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks and sizes
Deleted inode 228996 has zero dtime Fix<y>? (i always said yes)
Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found
Inode 229076 was part of the orphaned inode list
Pass 2 (no messages)
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Unconnected directory inode 133 4075 (/tmp/???)
Connect to /lost+found <y>?
Pass 4: checking reference counts
Inode 97537 ref count is 2, should be 3. Fix<y>?
Inode 1334075 ref count is 3, should be 2. Fix<y>?
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong for group #82 (26444, counted=26443)
Fix<y>?
Free blocks count wrong (895230, counted=895229)
Fix<y>?
Free inodes count wrong for group #82 (13151, counted=13149)
Fix<y>?
Directories count wrong for group #82 (56, counted=57)
Fix<y>?
Free inodes count wrong (1590791, counted=1590789)
Fix<y>?

File system was modified, reboot etc.
376187 inodes used (19%)
15360 non-contiguous inodes (4,1%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks 14308/457/0
3038672 blocks used (77%)
0 bad blocks
0 large files
334986 regular diles
26589 directories
2002 character devices files
4463 block device files
5 fifos
3157 links
8113 symbolic links (8113 fast symbolic links)
20 sockets
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379335 files

the filesystem is mounted without special options, no htree

in lost+found i've a #1334075 directory wich contains
srwxrwxrwx 1 diego diego 0 2003-05-02 18:08 socket

The filesystem now runs well without any warning.

Diego Calleja
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