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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jimmy Rentz <jedynamic@bellsouth.net>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 - error with root drive mount
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:24:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090204062400.GZ14762@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090203191531.0dfe27a1@amd64linuxmsi.rentzhouse.lan>

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 07:15:31PM -0500, Jimmy Rentz wrote:
> 	I am unable to mount my ext4 root drive. 
> 
> 	I get this error:
> 	EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 2688
> 	not in group (block 4205711663)!<3>EXT4-fs: group descriptors
> 	corrupted!
> 
> 	I had a similar error some time ago, but I thought it was power
> 	related.  I fixed the problem by running a fcsk.  

You'll need to fix it using fsck again.  I assume the back up
superblocks will have the correct value.

It would be interesting to see if there are any other errors picked up
by e2fsck.

> 	Any tips to debug this?

Can you reliably replicate this problem?  I've not seen any similar
reports of problems like this.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04  0:15 ext4 - error with root drive mount Jimmy Rentz
2009-02-04  6:24 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-02-04 14:34   ` Jimmy Rentz
2009-02-04 16:18     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-02-05  0:29       ` Jimmy Rentz
2009-02-05  0:59         ` Eric Sandeen

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