[KLUG Members] hd errors

[Adam Tauno WIlliams]

> With the incessant power outages over the weekend its not surprising 

Yes, it has been fun.  But we've only lost one router and one label
printer so far;  which isn't so bad compared to previous years.

> that one of my RH9 systems started reporting errors.  It was on the 
> bench testing some new equipment so was not on battery backup.  My 
> question: what is the error and how can it be fixed?

This means the file-system is corrupted.  You might be able to fix it
with an fsck.

> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory # 
> 4685826 rec_len % 4!=0 - offset=0, inode=4294967295, rec_len=65535, 
> nam-len=255

If possible, backup the data, recreate the fs, and restore; that is, if
a routing fsck doesn't fix it.