From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: Ext4 Filesystem recovery ... Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:49:20 -0600 Message-ID: <4F1D8F90.3080909@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ext4 Developers List To: Paul Richter Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:64271 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751332Ab2AWQtX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:49:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html