File system check
 

For the second time my Lenny fails to boot protesting about file system failure.

This is just one paragraph of the stuff I get on boot.

436.821659 end request.
IO ERROR: io error.
dev/hda sector 69354418412
436.821659
buffer i/o error
on device ha2
logical block 43057264
error reading block 43057264
Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while getting next node from scan. Ignore Y/N

This Y/N seemed to want to continue indefinitely.


It does not bode well for "stability" as it is the second time. I deliberately mount my home partition on an external drive to preserve space for log and cache. The hard drive itself is obviously fine.

if you are trying to figure out how to check the FS you can do it with fsck on rebbot

shutdown -r -F now

that will reboot and run fsck. Not sure if that answers you question or not though.

I fsck was being forced during boot. So I had no choice. Seems to have picked up some file errors. Exact thing happened to twice.