reinstall ubuntu urgent

[Nils Kassube]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
> On 08-05-12 09:32, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 08/05/12 16:46, Nils Kassube wrote:
> >> Joep L. Blom wrote:
> >>> I had run fsck several
> >>> times and every time it repaired the corrupt inodes. However,
> >>> after I restarted the system it ran for some time and then the
> >>> same problems occurred again.
> >> 
> >> That looks like a failing harddisk to me, on a healthy disk this
> >> should not happen.
> > 
> > According to Joep in his OP, SMART is showing that there are no
> > problems with the HDD. The problem is not, therefore, in the
> > 'health' of the hard disc.
> > 
> > [..........]
> > 
> > BC
> 
> Nils,
> Thanks but As Basil wrote, the hard disk is healthy - as indicated by
> smart - so I think Basil is right and it's a corrupt file system. I'm
> investigating it now.

Well, IMHO the file system should be repaired after running fsck once. 
If the file system becomes corrupt again after some time of using the 
system, there must be something terribly wrong. To my understanding 
there are two components involved, if there are file system errors, the 
harddisk and the kernel. And because I haven't read of others having 
similar file system problems with 11.10, my guess would be a disk 
problem. OTOH, if there is no SMART indication of failures, it is of 
course a hint that it is probably not the harddisk itself. Let's hope 
that the problem is gone after reinstalling the system.


Nils