Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:06:34 -0600
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: uncorrectable ext2 errors
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On Aug 06, 2003  17:03 +0200, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> A few days ago, I reported some problems with a ext2 filesystem which I
> cannot repair with e2fsck. Now I got some new observations.
> 
> To summarize the problem: e2fsck reports block bitmap differences, but
> telling it to repair these doesn't help, another e2fsck run reports the
> same differences.

Is this the root filesystem that is being checked?  If yes, then you
probably need to either reboot after the fsck is complete (before
mounting RW), or run the fsck from a rescue disk/CD.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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