[H-GEN] Drive problems

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

A friend is having problems that I can't understand.

The drive is an 80 GB drive.  It has the Linux system on it, plus 
partitions for data storage and a VFAT partition for data storage in 
Windows.

The first problem is that fsck.ext3 segfaults when trying to check hdb5.  I 
first noticed trouble when copying some data into this partition awhile 
back.

Second problem is that I've noticed some data corruption in the VFAT 
partition (hdb8).

Third problem is that after a stint in Windows, an item in hdb5 that's 
meant to be a directory now looks like this:

?r-x-w-r-t  1213 4284023649 4282713262 61145972 1972-05-12 02:33 links

This all sounds to me like overlapping partitions, since I've had that 
before, but they don't appear to me to be overlapping at all.  And I don't 
understand why there is interplay between hdb5 and hdb8.

The partition table looks like this:

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1        1939      977224+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2            1940        2909      488880   82  Linux swap / 
Solaris
/dev/hdb3            2910        8250     2691864   83  Linux
/dev/hdb4            8251      155061    73992744    5  Extended
/dev/hdb5            8251       27627     9765976+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb6           27628       47004     9765976+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb7           47005      116039    34793608+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb8          116040      155061    19667056+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

I'm also disturbed by fsck dying.

The system is running Debian 3.1.  The LInux filesystems are ext3.

Any suggestions are most welcome, particularly if you can suggest how to 
correct the directory entry.

Geoff.


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