e2fsck output seems to have a race condition of some sort. It prints warning messages like so: /: Inode XXX ... /: Inode XXX ... /: Inode XXX /: Inode XXX /: Inode XXX
Is this checking multiple drives at the same time?
All warnings are from the same volume.
There was a bug in e2fsprogs which had it run several partitions from a volumne instead of just one. Can you please make sure you have e2fsprogs-1.19-3 or higher? Does it still happen then?
I have 1.19-3 (updated yesterday from beta.rhn), and it still tries to check multiple volumes on the same physical drive simultaneously.
1.19-4 from Red Hat Linux 7.1 should have a longer list of devices which are checked to be on the same disk. I have today put a new rpm based on e2fsprogs-1.20 into rawhide and that rpm should have even better logic to detect partitions on the same disk. So I think this bug should be closed now. Please reopen if you still have problems. (I have uploaded the current rpm to http://people.redhat.com/laroche/) Thanks.
Wait a sec :) This bug wasn't related to multiple volumes. It was about e2fsck printing output like that in the initial bug report above (that is, some lines are formatted "/: Inode XXX..." while other lines have a carriage return between the label and the message.) This happens while checking the root partition, when no other volumes are being checked. I still see this behavior on 7.1-release.