Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:23:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:23:29 -0500 Received: from viper.haque.net ([64.0.249.226]:48266 "EHLO mail.haque.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:23:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:22:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Mohammad A. Haque" To: Andreas Dilger cc: Subject: Re: ext2_unlink fun In-Reply-To: <200103211731.f2LHVEX19566@webber.adilger.int> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > It would be nice to determine _why_ you can't unlink these files. If > it was just an issue of size > 2GB, you should get EFBIG error or so. > People have been reporting undeletable files several times now... Before > you reformat, could you do some debugging? If someone guides me, I can do all the debugging you want. > > It appears a reasonable spot to get the EIO from is in ext2_delete_entry() > where we are validating the de in ext2_check_dir_entry(). Can you check > your syslog for any error messages, like: > > ext2_delete_entry: bad entry in directory X: 199908231702.txt ... Only message I have is EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file (1343506), 0 > Obviously e2fsck doesn't fix the problem? Could you run debugfs on this > filesystem, cd to the "mac3dfx/news/1999/08" directory, and "stat" each > of these broken files? This may help to identify what is wrong with the > files that e2fsck isn't fixing. Correct, this was after running e2fsck. I'll try running it again when I get home. Here is debugfs stat output for one of the broken files. Again, I havent run e2fsck a second time yet. debugfs: stat 199908231702.txt Inode: 1343489 Type: bad type Mode: 0000 Flags: 0x0 Version/Generation: 0 User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 0 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 0 Blockcount: 0 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 atime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 mtime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 BLOCKS: I'll send the results of what I get after running a fsck again in about 6 hours. Thanks for your help. -- ===================================================================== Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ mhaque@haque.net "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Project Lead Don't drink and derive." --Unknown http://wm.themes.org/ batmanppc@themes.org ===================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/