Re: ext3_error()

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:11:42 -0800

John McCutchan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I got this in my kern.log file:
>
> Feb 20 00:41:00 golbez kernel: ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone
> - block = 538082710, count = 1
>
> What could be the cause of this?
>

Bad things. Something somewhere has corrupted in-core or
on-disk allocation tables.

Any time anything like this comes out of a filesystem, it's
time to shut everything off and run fsck.

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