This is stopping my new Centos 5.5 installation from booting. I have dropped into maintainance mode and run e2fsck without getting any errors. I used the -c option, and no bad blocks were found. I've run another disk checker program called Vivard, from the Ultimate Boot CD disk. That completed without any errors as well. So this is a mystery why I get this error at boot time. Any ideas what's happening please? Where can I find out more about ext3, such as inodes, dtime and imagic flag? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 10:10:38PM +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:> This is stopping my new Centos 5.5 installation from booting. > > I have dropped into maintainance mode and run e2fsck without getting > any errors. I used the -c option, and no bad blocks were found.That error "Inode ... has imagic flag set" is an e2fsck error. Do you have more than one file system on your system? Maybe you checked the one file system, and the error was on another file system. That error very often means that part of your inode table has gotten corrupted, since that flag should never get set during normal operation. (It was implemented for AFS file servers.) - Ted