linux-kernel - Re: Ext4 corruption that will not go away

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Date:	Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:24:56 -0400
From:	Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@...com>
To:	Ed Tomlinson <edt@....ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	nicholas.dokos@...com
Subject: Re: Ext4 corruption that will not go away

> Hi,
> 
> I am running 2.6.31-rc8+ and have ext4 corruption that will not go away.
> 
> My root fs is ext4 on sdb3.  I have moved the directory with corruption into lost+found and booted to a rescuse
> system (arch linux) and run fsck.ext4 on the filesystem, which then reports its clean...  Booting back into my
> gentoo system and attempting to remove the xx directory from lost+found gives:
> 
> [  172.408799] EXT4-fs error (device sdb3): ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode #706801: invalid magic - magic 0, entries 0, max 0(0), depth 0(0)                                                                                                
> [  172.429410] EXT4-fs error (device sdb3): ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode #706801: invalid magic - magic 0, entries 0, max 0(0), depth 0(0)                                                                                                
> [  172.449920] EXT4-fs error (device sdb3): ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode #706801: invalid magic - magic 0, entries 0, max 0(0), depth 0(0)
> 
> The above is repeatable.
> 
> How can I _really_ clean this fs?  What info is needed to help the process?
> 

The first two pieces of information needed would be the version of e2fsprogs
that you are running (e2fsck -V) and the stat of inode 706801:

  debugfs -R 'stat <706801>' /dev/sdb3

Thanks,
Nick
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