[clug] attempt to access beyond end of device

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Thu Sep 3 06:52:13 MDT 2009


Carlo Hamalainen <carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Daniel Pittman<daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>>> I wouldn't think so because fsck is happy.
>>
>> Very strange.  I suggest you take the issue to the ext3 mailing list, where
>> they can help you diagnose it correctly.
>
> I did an fsck yesterday and it was ok, but today it is complaining
> about millions of "Illegal block #6 blah blah blah in inode blah". I
> swear that I've done this before and had the illegal blocks come back.
> Argh.

Yeah.  So, that points to a dodgy drive or USB case.  My money would be on the
later, since I am scared by bad USB hardware, but it really could be either.

Regards,
        Daniel

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