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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Block allocation failed
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:25:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8C196A.9060801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zl9vhnfa.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk>

Graham Murray wrote:
> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
>>> Shortly after rebooting following an untidy shutdown due to an unrelated
>>> (to ext4 or the filesystem) Oops. Unmounting the partition and running
>>> e2fsck (version 1.41.8) just replayed the journal and stated the
>>> filesystem was clean but I did not believe it so ran 'e2fsck -f
>>> /dev/sdb3' and that showed several errors which I allowed it to correct.
>> What sort of errors did it find?
>>
> Sorry, but I do not remember all the errors, it was late at night. The
> first were some sort of block error with lots of block numbers in ()
> which I responded 'y' to fix. 

Probably something like this:

Block bitmap differences:  +(32768--34306) +(65536--66049)
+(98304--99842) +(131072--131585) +(163840--165378) +(196608--197121) ...

indicating corrupt bitmaps I guess, which would explain the later mismatch.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-19 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-19  5:27 Block allocation failed Graham Murray
2009-08-19 13:50 ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-19 14:46   ` Graham Murray
2009-08-19 15:25     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-08-19 16:20     ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-19 17:33       ` Graham Murray

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