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On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 09:35:36PM +0100, Alistair J Strachan wrote:
> touch /home/tmp
> sync
> 
> The kernel barfed out the attached junk and the file was never committed. The 
> volume was not corrupted as I was able to reboot with -mm6 and all is fine. 
> tmp does not exist on the volume.

Be sure to run e2fsck -f on your /home partition because some changes could
have been made to the filesystem that happen before a directory entry would
be changed, suck as bitmaps or somesuch.