Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:02:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:02:29 -0400 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.2]:1540 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:02:18 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: Manfred Spraul Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Corrupt ext2/ext3 directory entries not recovered by e2fsck In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Oct 2001 16:06:35 +0200." <3BC84A6B.C788C477@colorfullife.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 01:02:33 +1000 Message-ID: <18096.1002985353@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 16:06:35 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: >> I forgot to mention that both fsck.ext2 and fsck.ext3 report >> >> 1: Entry 'sendmail.pid' in /var/run (686849) has >> deleted/unused inode 688415. CLEARED. >> /1: Entry 'crond.pid' in /var/run (686849) has >> deleted/unused inode 688416. CLEARED. >> /1: Entry 'xfs.pid' in /var/run (686849) has >> deleted/unused inode 688417. CLEARED. >> /1: Entry 'atd.pid' in /var/run (686849) has >> deleted/unused inode 688418. CLEARED. >> >All inodes are in the same sector. >Could you try out if that sector is destroyed? It should not matter which sector the inode is in, the directory entry should have been cleared, independent of the inode. But I checked anyway, dd of the entire partition to /dev/null succeeded, no disk error messages anywhere in the logs at any time. - 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/