linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck doesn't repair broken ext4

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Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:06:53 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Jörg Sommer <joerg@...a.gnuu.de>
CC:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsck doesn't repair broken ext4

Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after a system crash, I had a problem with ext4 that e2fsck didn't fix. I
> don't know if e2fsck or ext4 was wrong. In the end, I had to remove the
> broken directory, which succeed and solved my problem.
> 
> These are the steps I did:
> 
> 01 % e2fsck -fy /dev/root
> 02 % dumpe2fsck -x /dev/root
> 03 % e2image -r /dev/root

Great, thanks for gathering the images.

What version of e2fsprogs were you using?

-Eric

> 04 % apt-get install
> 05 % dmesg
> 06 % dumpe2fs -x /dev/root
> 07 % e2image -r /dev/root
> 08 % e2fsck -y /dev/root
> 09 % dumpe2fs -x /dev/root
> 10 % e2image -r /dev/root
> 11 % apt-get install
> 12 % dmesg
> 
> I've put the output and images of all these commands at
> <http://alioth.debian.org/~jo-guest/ext4/>. I hope they help you somehow.
> 
> Regards, Jörg.

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