linux-kernel - Re: Where is nilfs2 fsck

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Date:	Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:41:47 -0800
From:	Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@...eyko.com>
To:	David Niklas <Hgntkwis@...mail.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where is nilfs2 fsck

Hi David,

On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 13:53 -0500, David Niklas wrote:
> Alas, my beautiful fs has become damaged and fsck does nothing, I think
> it's a nop.
> What is wrong, something in the btree, the original message was in
> syslog but it seems to have rotated, I could tell you but I'd have to
> cause my kernel to remount my home dir RO, which is not acceptable at
> this time.
> I'm not interested in the files that can't be accessed, I was trying to
> delete them when I found the error so even an experimental fsck would do.
> I do have nilfs2-utils installed but I can't find anything useful in
> there.
> Do I need to backup and reformat the partition?
> 

The fsck utility hadn't been implemented for NILFS2. So, you haven't
another way that to reformat your partition.

There is an experimental branch in nilfs repository this some initial
state of fsck utility. But mostly it does nothing, as far as I can
judge.

Thanks,
Vyacheslav Dubeyko.