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

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Date:	Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:22:30 -0500
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

On 04/16/2010 05:11 AM, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jörg Sommer hat am Fri 12. Mar, 21:54 (+0100) geschrieben:
>> 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
>> 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.
> 
> I would like to ask, if there was any result from this issue? Did you
> found a bug in e2fsck?

I'm sorry, I haven't made further progress on this yet.

-Eric

> Bye, Jörg.

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