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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <aedilger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Casey <markc@unifiedgroup.com>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: e2fsck repeatedly asks to clear the same entry?
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:34:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B10540.1060405@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07FA29B6-B150-4A93-B6FF-3072DF31B577@gmail.com>

On 11/23/12 1:18 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2012-11-23, at 11:26, Mark Casey <markc@unifiedgroup.com> wrote:
>> I'm in a bit of a loop trying to fix my ext4 filesystem; it always
>> goes like this even after several passes.

...

> Normally I'd say that getting a e2image of the filesystem would be
> useful for debugging and to create a test case, but since the
> filesystem is 16TB in size that won't be practical.

It might not be that bad.  You could make a raw e2image, mount it,
remove some of the non-affected dir trees, (maybe make another e2image -r
of that modified image), and it might compress pretty well.

Just a thought, if the email debugging doesn't yield results.

-Eric

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-24 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23 18:26 e2fsck repeatedly asks to clear the same entry? Mark Casey
2012-11-23 19:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-11-24  6:27   ` Mark Casey
2012-11-24 19:17     ` Andreas Dilger
2012-11-26  3:52       ` Mark Casey
2012-11-24 17:34   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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