Re: FS corruption and repair problem

Eric Sandeen
2006-10-16T14:16:30Z

Jason White wrote:
> This is my desktop system, running kernel 2.6.17.11. Kernel 2.6.17 was
> previously installed, but I upgraded several weeks ago after I found out about
> the corruption bug in 2.6.17, which may or may not be related to the
> following.
>
> The file system was shut down during a Debian package upgrade while trying to
> access apt-related files. I booted into an old 2.4 kernel on a separate
> partition and ran an old version of xfs_repair. The output is attached.
> Xfs_repair terminated abnormally (see the end of the output).

The original reason for the shutdown would probably be interesting here, that's
missing information about the first problem you encountered.

But, from the repair output, it looks like corrupted directory data on disk,
hard to say when/why it occurred. Newer repair is always a good idea, but if
the directory is badly corrupted then there's not a lot of magic to be done.

-Eric