linux-ext4 - Re: ext4: Funny characters appended to file names

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Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2020 13:05:41 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Cc:     Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4: Funny characters appended to file names

On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 04:39:12PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> 
> > $ sudo LANG=C fsck.ext4 -f /dev/md0
> > e2fsck 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
> > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> > Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> > Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> > Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> > Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> > boot: 327/124928 files (17.7% non-contiguous), 126021/497856 blocks
> 
> I can’t remember if that was an Ext2 or Ext3 when created several years ago.

Well, the output dumpe2fs will tell us an awful lot about the file
system.

Whe was the last time the directory was OK?  Do you know when it may
have gotten corrupted?

				- Ted