[H-GEN] Strange problem.

[Robert Brockway]

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Unix-related topics. ]

"Michael J. Borthwick" <mj at uq.net.au> wrote:
: [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and
: Unix-related topics. ]

: Hi,

: A problem has recently started with one of my linux machines.  It keeps
: giving me the following message (i am guessing it has something to do with
: the hard drive but i'm not sure).  Can someone let me know a possible fix
: for this problem?

: --
: attempt to access beyond end of device
: 03:02: rw=2, want=33554433, limit=184387

Device 03:02 is /dev/hda2.  Is the filesystem in this partition
functioning ok?  It sounds like there might be a problem.  If it
is a filesystem consider an fsck on this partition (after mounting it ro).
If it is a swap partition, consider a swapoff ; mkswap /dev/hda2 ; swapon
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
                                robert.brockway at uq.net.au
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