Filesystem corrupted "ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone"
Issue
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Filesystem corrupted with following messages in the log.
kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-22): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 4 816900, length 1 kernel: Aborting journal on device dm-22. kernel: ext3_abort called. kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-22): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-22) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted kernel: __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data kernel: __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data kernel: ext3_abort called. kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-22): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user kernel: ext3_abort called. kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-22): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user kernel: ext3_abort called. kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-22): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Ext3 Filesystem
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