Jason Thorpe writes:
> This happens when the mode bits on the inode aren't cleared for some reason,
> indicating that the inode is still allocated.
> 
> I have heard of this when going from 1.2 -> current from a few people...
> I'm guessing that this is something that fsck is somehow missing...

When doing upgrades, I do fsck -f -- I've institutionalized this in
the latest set of i386 upgr scripts, in fact.

Perry