Re: [PATCH] resize2fs: If resize2fs fails, tell the user to run e2fsck

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>]

On Jul 10, 2009  14:07 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> If the resize operation fails in the middle of the operation, mark the
> filesystem as needing to be checked, and tell the user that they
> should run e2fsck -fy on the device.

Isn't it a bit late to mark the filesystem inconsistent AFTER the resize
failed?  If resize2fs dies for some reason it won't be marked.  It makes
more sense to mark the filesystem in error at the start (at first change
at least) and then clear it if there was no error.

> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> ---
>  resize/main.c |    7 ++++++-
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/resize/main.c b/resize/main.c
> index 2dae161..990a967 100644
> --- a/resize/main.c
> +++ b/resize/main.c
> @@ -455,7 +455,12 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv)
>  	if (retval) {
>  		com_err(program_name, retval, _("while trying to resize %s"),
>  			device_name);
> -		ext2fs_close (fs);
> +		fprintf(stderr,
> +			_("Please run 'e2fsck -fy %s' to fix the filesystem\n"
> +			  "after the aborted resize operation"), device_name);
> +		fs->super->s_state |= EXT2_ERROR_FS;
> +		ext2fs_mark_super_dirty(fs);
> +		ext2fs_close(fs);
>  		exit(1);
>  	}
>  	printf(_("The filesystem on %s is now %u blocks long.\n\n"),
> -- 
> 1.6.3.2.1.gb9f7d.dirty
> 
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Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.