FAT errors

Sheldon E. Newhouse (sen1@math.msu.edu)
Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:09:11 -0400

I recently upgraded to kernel 2.0.18. Somewhat after mounting the FAT
filesystem, I got a whole bunch of errors. This is on a P5-100 with two
ide drives. /dev/hda is the first, /dev/hdb is the second. /dev/hda1 is
the only partition on /dev/hda and it is completely FAT.

Here is the output of df

Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 29735 20258 7942 72% /
/dev/hdb6 540528 70374 442234 14% /home
/dev/hdb3 347407 293876 35589 89% /usr
/dev/hdb5 198275 6994 181027 4% /usr/local
/dev/hda1 712432 396080 316352 56% /DOS

Here are the errors

. . .
03:01: rw=0, want=933997, limit=712624
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=933997, limit=712624
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=933998, limit=712624
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:01: rw=0, want=933998, limit=712624
Filesystem panic (dev 03:01, mounted on 03:41:5795)
FAT error
Filesystem panic (dev 03:01, mounted on 03:41:5795)
fat_free: deleting beyond EOF

What should be done about this?

TIA,

-sen

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