Re: ext2 file type errors

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:51:37 -0300


Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> said:
> I have observed this problem for several months, every time I run
> e2fsck on my filesystems i get the following output:
>
> /dev/hda7: Setting filetype for entry 'showq' in
> /spool/postfix/public (45244) to 6.

What version of e2fsprogs are you using? Latest is 1.18, AFAIK. What kernel
are you using? 2.2.13 is known to corrupt filesystems, and all 2.3.x for x
>= 20 do so here (i686 UP, IDE, various compilers and binutils).

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