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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Group descriptor 0 checksum is invalid
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:11:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091116031101.GP4323@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.01.0911141349050.27639@bogon.housecafe.de>

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 02:00:15PM -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when trying to convert an ext3 filesystem to ext4, I'm getting these 
> "Group descriptor 0 checksum is invalid" messages. I've seen them before 
> and the net is full of them, but I still wonder if they're expected to 
> show up at all during the filesystem's first fsck. See below for the 
> script log.

Yes, it's expected.  We may try to make tune2fs better about fixing up
the checksums when enabling uninit_bg at some point in the future, but
for now, it's one of the reasons why tune2fs requests that you run
e2fsck on the file system.

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-16  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-14 22:00 Group descriptor 0 checksum is invalid Christian Kujau
2009-11-16  3:11 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-11-16  7:27   ` Christian Kujau
2009-11-16 16:36 ` Andreas Dilger

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