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From: Hartvig Ekner <hartvig@ekner.info>
To: Linux MIPS mailing list <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: ext3 problem solved
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:55:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E97018B.3435D14C@ekner.info> (raw)

I found out (sort of) what the problem was and found a fix.

Apparantly there is something wrong with e2fsprogs 1.27, since it was unable to repair
the problem I had in the filesystem (just kept repairing the same thing again and again).

I took the disk and attached it to a x86 PC, and ran fsck.ext3 there (an older version, 1.26).
It found exactly the same errors as the MIPS system, but actually fixed them so that
subsequent runs with "-f" reported no errors. I then put the disk back on the MIPS
system - voila, no more filesystem problems. Then did another unclean shutdown,
and the same problem reappeared, and once again fsck (on MIPS) was unable to fix
it.

Then I downloaded e2fsprogs-1.32-6.mipsel.rpm from redhat 9, and installed that on my
MIPS system. And that removed the problem for good.

So the conclusion must be: The e2fsprogs-1.27 package which is part of the MIPS 7.3
RedHat distribution (CDROM and FTP) is broken. Don't leave home without a newer
e2fsprogs RPM just in case!

Thanks to everybody who replied!

/Hartvig

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