[TriLUG] EXT3 Errors

[Joshua Gitlin]

Hey TriLUG,

Over the weekend I started noticing very weird problems with my /home 
partition. I was trying to connect to my Mandrake linux box using VNC, 
and I kept getting a message about an error in my .Xauthority file. 
Well, the odd thing is, in my home directory, `ls -al .X*` produces a 
list of files that did not include .Xauthority. Nor did `la -al *`. 
However, `ls -l .Xauthority` showed me a single .Xauthority file. I 
could edit it, using pico and vi, as well as cat > to it. However, I 
couldn't remove or unlink it (both said "No such file or directory").

I assumed that something had gone terribly wrong somewhere and somehow 
this file was only partially in existence. Not knowing what else to do, 
I created a tar backup of my entire /home partition, and erased the 
/home partition using `mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/hdb1`. Now, when I go to 
un-tar the archive back into /home, I get the following messages:

Jun  1 08:12:28 jn kernel: EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
Jun  1 08:12:28 jn kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count 
reached, running e2fsck is recommended

The messages repeat over and over as long as tar -x is running... On 
both my console and in my syslog. I've run e2fsck /dev/hdb1, and  it 
said everything was fine. Any thoughts?

-Josh


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