From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Paul Richter <iamcomcy@gmail.com>
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ext4 Filesystem recovery ...
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:49:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1D8F90.3080909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHw_BJ3w84hoeW5-XsNWaRZPp5vB4Jp_ecdQ86iauEw4qHPyFQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/21/12 12:23 AM, Paul Richter wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I am trying to recover 8Tb after a raid failure. RAID issues seem to
> be resolved, but cannot mount the fs,
>
> dmesg says:
> EXT4-fs (md127): bad geometry: block count 1953512448 exceeds size of
> device (1953509376 blocks)
Are you sure the md device is set up properly? It seems to be 3072
shorter than the fs...
> OS sees ext4
What does that mean?
> have complete dd back of fs, so I can kick it around
>
> debugfs cannot see fs structure.
>
> fsck tried to fix every inode, but at 500M inodes (and would take a
> month to complete), that far exceeds used inodes
>
> Am I beating a dead horse here, or is there some hope for recovery?
Off the top of my head, I think maybe your raid is not as happy as you
hope it is...
-Eric
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-21 6:23 Ext4 Filesystem recovery Paul Richter
2012-01-22 20:14 ` Paul Richter
2012-01-23 16:49 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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