Anyone know how to fix this problem?

[Paul]

Hi,

A partition on one of my hard drives has decided that blocks 0, 1 and 2
are no-go areas. I can mount the drive manually by using mount -t ext3
-o sb=131073 /dev/hdg2 /web.

If I run e2fsck on the drive, I always get the following output

/dev/hdg2 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong for group #116 (32255, counted=32253).
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #178 (32252, counted=32251).
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #209 (6856, counted=6790).
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #210 (16220, counted=16282).
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #229 (32208, counted=31551).
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong (8301757, counted=8301093).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #116 (16352, counted=16350).
Fix? yes

Directories count wrong for group #116 (0, counted=1).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #229 (16331, counted=16201).
Fix? yes

Directories count wrong for group #229 (7, counted=19).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (4293267, counted=4293135).
Fix? yes


/dev/hdg2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hdg2: 7441/4300576 files (1.6% non-contiguous), 294123/8595216
blocks
Error writing block 1 (Attempt to write block from filesystem resulted
in short write).  Ignore error? yes

It doesn't matter how many times I run e2fsck or fsck.ext3, I always get
the above.

badblocks -n doesn't help either.

The superblock is intact (as I can mount it), but I am unable to
automount the drive on boot.

Anyone know how to get around this?

TTFN

Paul

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