From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753799AbZH3Plr (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:41:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753491AbZH3Plq (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:41:46 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:43268 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753410AbZH3Plp (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:41:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:41:44 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Ed Tomlinson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext4 corruption that will not go away Message-ID: <20090830154144.GC23828@mit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org References: <20090119113300.GC9482@skywalker> <200908300025.48034.edt@aei.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908300025.48034.edt@aei.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@mit.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:25:47AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Hi, > > I am running 2.6.31-rc8+ and have ext4 corruption that will not go away. > > My root fs is ext4 on sdb3. I have moved the directory with corruption into lost+found and booted to a rescuse > system (arch linux) and run fsck.ext4 on the filesystem, which then reports its clean... Booting back into my > gentoo system and attempting to remove the xx directory from lost+found gives: > > [ 172.408799] EXT4-fs error (device sdb3): ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode #706801: invalid magic - magic 0, entries 0, max 0(0), depth 0(0) Can you send in the output of running fsck.ext4 on the filesystem, please? - Ted