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From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
To: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcus Hartmann <marcus.hartmann@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: Memory allocation failed, e2fsck: aborted
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:36:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100820143647.GY16603@skl-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100819131017.GV16603@skl-net.de>

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On Thu, Aug 19, 15:10, Andre Noll wrote:
> > Something which *might* help (but will take a long time) is to add to
> > your /etc/e2fsck.conf (if you have one; if not create one wiht these
> > contents):
> > 
> > [scratch_files]
> >     directory = /var/cache/fsck
> > 
> > (And then make sure /var/cache/fsck exists.)
> 
> Thanks for the hint. It is running for an hour now and I will report
> back tomorrow. ATM, it's at 1% and the two files in /var/cache/fsck
> are ~50M large.

It got much slower: 4.8% after one day. So I cancelled the fsck and
am copying the raw device to a 64bit machine and run fsck there,
as Andreas suggested.

Thanks
Andre
-- 
The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-18 14:04 Memory allocation failed, e2fsck: aborted Andre Noll
2010-08-18 20:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-08-19  0:54   ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-19 13:10     ` Andre Noll
2010-08-19 17:16       ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-20 14:40         ` Andre Noll
2010-08-20 14:36       ` Andre Noll [this message]
2010-08-19 13:01   ` Andre Noll
2010-08-19 19:03     ` Andreas Dilger
2010-08-20 12:46       ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-20 14:39       ` Andre Noll
2010-08-23 15:53         ` [PATCH]: icount: Replace the icount list by a two-level tree Andre Noll
2010-11-01 22:49           ` Mala Iyer
2010-11-01 23:23             ` Andreas Dilger

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