linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 bug and/or e2fsck hole

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Date:	Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:58:35 -0700
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@...b.org.au>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 bug and/or e2fsck hole

On Apr 08, 2009  09:09 +0930, Kevin Shanahan wrote:
> hermes:~# debugfs -c -R 'imap 383' /dev/dm-0
> debugfs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> /dev/dm-0: catastrophic mode - not reading inode or group bitmaps
> 383: File not found by ext2_lookup 
> hermes:~# debugfs -c -R 'imap <383>' /dev/dm-0
> debugfs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> /dev/dm-0: catastrophic mode - not reading inode or group bitmaps
> Inode 383 is part of block group 0
>         located at block 312, offset 0x0e00

In the meantime you can use "debugfs -w /dev/dm-0", "clri {filename}"
to zero out the inode, "freei {filename}" to mark the inode unused,
and "rm {filename}" to remove the file from the directory.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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