EXT3-fs error

[Henry Chua]

Hi guys,

There appears to be something wrong with my system. Upon boot up after awhile, it will just hang.. I try running fsck -y to check for faults, but the system will then umount all its filesystem... when I try to reboot.. it wont rstart just give me

EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_inode: IO failure ..... and it goes on and on...

how could I acertain which device is faulty in my system? thanks!

Best regards
Henry

[Sudipta Biswas]

Hi

did you try tune2fs -j command may be it can solve.

Sudipta

[Jun Yu]

Hi Henry,

Take care of your server's situation because sometime fs error doesn't only mean "filesystem is failed".

Suggestion are here:

- run server diagnostic utility to confirm your storage subsystem is OK.

- login into linux with root privilege, check the IDE disk by invoking hdparm

- boot from rescue disk, cleanly fsck your offline error fs

- update your system ROM/controller firmware and kernel to latest stable version(this is always the time-saving workaround).

JOE Yu

[Andrew Cowan]

Henry,

Are running with SELinux enabled, and have something like Xen running at the same time? If this is the case you will get this error everytime you reboot.