Description of problem: When computer is rebooted, ext3 partition on external IEEE1394 drive is flagged as unclean, and fsck checks the drive. fsck reports that manual fsck is necessary. Manual fsck detects thousands of errors, totalling 14GB of bad inodes and directories. (7GB first time, 7.4GB second time) External drive is mounted as my /home partition, so this is particularly painful. How reproducible: Every time I reboot. (Twice now.) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Shutdown through System->Shutdown 2. Power on machine 3. !Profit Actual results: System checks /dev/sda1 for errors, finds them, requires manual fsck. "fsck -vy /dev/sda1" returns thousands of errors in most stages of the fsck process. Expected results: I would expect a clean bootup without hemorraging data. Additional info: Firewire drive is a 250GB hard drive in an external enclosure, connected to Firewire PCI expansion card. lspci output: shortcircuit~ 12:28:17 $ /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (CNR) Ethernet Controller (rev 81) 01:0c.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 01) 01:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10) 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) 02:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46) 02:07.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 02:07.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 02:07.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) 02:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1) 02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06) shortcircuit~ 12:28:22 $ Contents of /etc/fstab: shortcircuit~ 12:28:22 $ cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0 shortcircuit~ 12:29:52 $ Output of mount: shortcircuit~ 12:29:52 $ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /home type ext3 (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) shortcircuit~ 12:30:23 $
I'm sorry. The problem wasn't what I thought it was. Turns out, my Firewire card went flaky the same day as I installed Fedora. Switching the drive to connect through USB fixed the problem.