I have an openSUSE 10.3 system that seems to be working fine, except I get the following messages repeated continuously in /var/log/messages: kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device kernel: sda1: rw=32, want=135266312, limit=28933002 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #605117 contains a hole at offset 4096 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #605117 contains a hole at offset 8192 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device kernel: sda1: rw=32, want=15629549576, limit=28933002 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #605117 contains a hole at offset 12288 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #605117 contains a hole at offset 16384 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device kernel: sda1: rw=32, want=672137224, limit=28933002 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #605117 contains a hole at offset 20480 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #605117 contains a hole at offset 24576 This continues with the offset continuing to increase by 4096. The file system is in use. It seems to be working ok. Just these messages. The disk looks like this (as expected): Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000d109e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1801 14466501 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1802 3601 14458500 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 3602 9729 49223160 83 Linux /dev/sda5 1802 1901 803218+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 1902 3601 13655218+ 83 Linux The mount info looks like this (as expected): Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 14G 12G 1.4G 90% / udev 252M 96K 252M 1% /dev /dev/sda3 47G 34G 11G 77% /home Perhaps I have a corrupt directory somewhere that is referring to some places past the end of the disk. How could I find out which directory is #605117? Or am I looking at this wrong? A bit of Googling suggested (among lots of strange things) that fdisk may originally have reported the partition size wrong, and now the file system is trying to access a part that never really existed. Seems odd. How would I see f this is the case? The info I supplied above implies that both fdisk and mount think the partition is 14 GB. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org