linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 recovery, the saga of 16777215 continues

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Message-ID: <CA+qGm=-tSOFyWJFTwB3HWpS_WdGekXyWUVMP8RN33sciwkafMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:25:35 +0000
From:	Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 recovery, the saga of 16777215 continues

dump_inode 2937950 /media/usbdisk/dump

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 03:40:47PM +0000, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
>> OK, so after updating e2fsprogs and doing a bunch of hacking around, I
>> was eventually able to find the inode that returns hundreds of MB of
>> 16777215 in the multiply-claimed blocks pass.
>>
>> Dumping it out with debugfs, the output file reached 28 GB before the
>> device receiving ran out of space. I thought inodes were of defined
>> size?
>
> What do you mean by "dumping it out"?  What precise debugfs command
> were you using?
>
> stat?  dump?  something else?
>
>                                                 - Ted
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