Did fsck complain? If not, then it is a 2.4.2 kernel/driver bug, possibly
not reading any data from disk (the below errors are generated from a zero
filled directory block).
> EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
> #508411: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0,
> name_len=0
> EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
> #508411: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0,
> name_len=0
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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