What is wrong with my HD and what should I do?

[Bohlendach]

Edit: I realised that i had unmounted the swapdrive! DUH!!!!

I have an RT-N16 with western digital EADS10 1GB EXT3 formatted. I have used wengis tutorial.

In my syslog i get:


Aug 22 22:57:13 e2fsck: /dev/discs/discb/part3: Inode 103694499 has illegal block(s).
Aug 22 22:57:13 e2fsck: /dev/discs/discb/part3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
Aug 22 22:57:13 e2fsck: (i.e., without -a or -p options)


When I run e2fsck on my unmounted partition I get:


e2fsck /dev/sdb3
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
ext2fs_check_if_mount: Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to missing mtab file while determining whether /dev/sdb3 is mounted.
/dev/sdb3 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Error allocating block bitmap (4): Memory allocation failed
e2fsck: aborted

[Bohlendach]

How did you fix it? I know some computers don't recognize the larger hard drives. Sometimes that can be fixed with a bios update or driver update. This also happens with cameras too and the larger flash drives.

Well, the Asus recognized it very well. The problem was errors on the harddisk and I had to check/repair it with e2fsck manually. e2fsck required more than the avialable ram. I mounted a swapdrive and e2fsck did the job.