EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended - kernel

[Dinjamin1]

We are seeing the following meassages:

2012 Jan 17 03:25:20 MDSBDC09 Jan 17 03:25:20 %KERN-4-SYSTEM_MSG: EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended - kernel

2012 Jan 17 03:30:28 MDSBDC09 Jan 17 03:30:28 %KERN-4-SYSTEM_MSG: EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended - kernel

I can't find any info on same.

Please advise. Any actions required?

thanks!

[blueyonderguy]

how long are they running?

[bnamazhw]

run "system health check bootflash" or reboot the switch to fix the issue. what is the output of "show system uptime"

[Dinjamin1]

We see that the switch did run the e2fsk successfully and fix those errors.

e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/hd-cfg0: recovering journal
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong (34334, counted=34279).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (9920, counted=9918).
Fix? yes

/dev/hd-cfg0: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hd-cfg0: 42/9960 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 5505/39784 blocks
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/hd-cfg1: recovering journal
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong (33356, counted=33301).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (9680, counted=9678).
Fix? yes

/dev/hd-cfg1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hd-cfg1: 42/9720 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 5475/38776 blocks
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/hd-pss: recovering journal
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong (33756, counted=33512).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (9875, counted=9870).
Fix? yes

/dev/hd-pss: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hd-pss: 90/9960 files (5.6% non-contiguous), 6272/39784 blocks
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/hd-obfl: recovering journal
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong (7246, counted=7232).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (2132, counted=2130).
Fix? yes

/dev/hd-obfl: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hd-obfl: 14/2144 files (7.1% non-contiguous), 1336/8568 blocks
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/hd-bootflash: recovering journal
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong (189131, counted=161555).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (112210, counted=112208).

Fix? yes

We will monitor the switch for its frequency. 
We have looked at the flash and I do not see any directory 100% full

thanks