Reoccurring filesystem corruption

[Philip Murray]

On 15/08/2005, at 10:04 AM, David Wolfskill wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:55:07AM +1200, Philip Murray wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a 4.11 machine that keeps getting file-system corruption on a
>> single ATA drive ...
>>
>
>
>> Every time I see this, I run a fsck over the file-system in single
>> user mode and fsck claims to have fixed all the corruption. Then,
>> anywhere from a week to a month later, it starts happening again and
>> gets worse and worse.
>>
>
> You didn't mention it explicitly, but I think it's relevant:  is the
> file system in question mounted (read-write) at the time you do the
> fsck?

No, it's mounted read-only. I've also done it during early-startup  
when the filesystem isn't mounted at all.

Cheers

Philip Murray