Inode error woes

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Piltdownster Wrote: 
> Got a PC which is dual-booting with XP. After installation of Ubuntu

> everything was fine. But after a few weeks errors appeared (duplicated

> inodes) which were apparently corrected by running e2fsk - but then
> they

> reappeared. So, thinking it was a HD problem I installed a 2nd drive,

> allowing Ubuntu to use it all. All was well for a couple of days, but
> now I

> am getting a similiar problem. The precise error on boot-up is:

> 

> EXT3-fs error (device hdb1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode
> block

> - inode=2256577, block=4521990

> 

> Any ideas?

When shutting down (or rebooting) from Ubuntu, have you at any point
ever seen it hang _just_ before it reboots (or tries to)?  If so,
although I thought this was old news by now, you could be having ACPI
issues with your particular hardware, even though it apparently does
not affect you on Windows.



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