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* Corrupt superblocks
@ 2009-11-04 18:39 fabian-buettner
  2009-11-04 19:21 ` Eric Sandeen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 20+ messages in thread
From: fabian-buettner @ 2009-11-04 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ext4

Hello,

After updating my gentoo machine (new udev, lvm2) and rebooting, my initrd was 
broken (i had CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATEDV2 activated) 
and the new udev didn't like these settings.
So I received a warning regarding this issue. Unfortunately I had set the init 
bootparameter to init=/sbin/bootchartd. And when i was returning from getting 
a cup of coffee. Bootchartd was spamming my console telling me: No space left 
on the device (or similar). When i was seeing this i had instantly a VERY bad 
feeling about what was going on there.

So i put in the rescuecd, chrooted into my old system, built a new kernel 
without these deprecated options, rebooted again.

This time fsck.ext4 was telling me: No such file or directory while trying to 
open /dev/vg/root, the superblock could not be read.

That's the story how I managed to corrupt my superblock and probably also it's 
backups.
I have run e2fsck -b for several times (with different superblock backup 
locations), also did a fsck manually and got spammed by a LOT of "Group 
descriptor checksum is invalid" warnings, but the fsck.ext4 error message 
remained.

For now I have set my filesystem in /etc/fstab to 0 0, but i REALLY want to get 
this fixed. 

So i googled around and found this thread: 
http://markmail.org/message/3w5tbyaiho7os4fr where some guy as a similar 
problem. 
Theodore Tso asked him to execute several commands, which i did too.
It would be great if someone with more experience than me could check those 
files, unfortunately they are huge.
Here is the link to the three logs:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-1989316/dumpe2fsfab.tar.gz.html

Thanks in advance,
fabian

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2009-11-04 18:39 Corrupt superblocks fabian-buettner
2009-11-04 19:21 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-11-04 20:40   ` [PATCH] make unified logs on ext2 Alexey Fisher
2009-11-05  4:50     ` Andreas Dilger
2009-11-05  7:33       ` [PATCH] Unify log messages in ext2 Alexey Fisher
2009-11-06 14:53         ` Alexey Fisher
2009-11-17 21:23           ` Jan Kara
2009-11-18 19:26             ` Alexey Fisher
2009-11-19 11:17             ` [PATCH v2] " Alexey Fisher
2009-11-19 11:22               ` Alexey Fisher
2009-11-19 11:30               ` [PATCH v3] " Alexey Fisher
2009-11-19 14:32                 ` Jan Kara
2009-11-19 18:12                   ` [PATCH v4] " Alexey Fisher
2009-11-20  9:56                     ` Jan Kara
2009-11-21 10:27                       ` Alexey Fisher
2009-11-04 21:56   ` Corrupt superblocks fabian-buettner
2009-11-04 21:59     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-11-04 22:07       ` fabian-buettner
2009-11-04 22:24         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-11-09 20:18           ` fabian-buettner

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