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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:15:43 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To: Clemmitt Sigler <siglercm@jrt.me.vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.20-rc3 ext3 fsck corruption -- tool update warning needed?
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Clemmitt Sigler wrote:

> I'd been running 2.4.20-rc3 for two days.  While rebooting it tonight
> fsck.ext3 corrupted my / partition during an automatic fsck of the
> partition (caused by the maximal mount count being reached).  (I had
> backups so I was able to recover :^)  The symptoms were that some files
> like /etc/fstab and dirs like /etc/rc2.d disappeared -- not good.
> 
> My system is Debian Testing, with Debian e2fsprogs version
> 1.29+1.30-WIP-0930-1.  I use ext3 partitions with all options set to
> the defaults (ordered data mode).  This is an SMP system, in case
> that matters.  Please e-mail me for any other details that might help.

Retry with 1.32. I don't think the corruption is kernel-related, but I
may be wrong.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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