Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751346AbWHIURH (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:17:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751349AbWHIURH (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:17:07 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.236]:7280 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751346AbWHIURG (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:17:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=VFillbbj2pwpqy6eel8ZB7gcmuxh9aUioeE72v0YRnIv5DS56qp1/r+1lnNiBI1/zKUq4480a3XLmlqi6C0J482bsywq3P+TdKIBz+veJDnhmqj7+6/uF/HtouLtANHMqgg57dEuseJv7jjVuO70uu36npwe9Z5Xsr7fvNiC4v4= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 21:17:04 +0100 From: "Duane Griffin" To: "Molle Bestefich" Subject: Re: ext3 corruption Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <62b0912f0608091128n4d32d437h45cf74af893dc7c8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <62b0912f0607131332u5c390acfrd290e2129b97d7d9@mail.gmail.com> <62b0912f0608081647p2d540f43t84767837ba523dc4@mail.gmail.com> <62b0912f0608090822n2d0c44c4uc33b5b1db00e9d33@mail.gmail.com> <1A5F0A2F95110B3F35E8A9B5@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> <62b0912f0608091128n4d32d437h45cf74af893dc7c8@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 84b00e6f1f1bdaa7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 22 On 09/08/06, Molle Bestefich wrote: [snip] > And what will e2fsck do to my dear filesystem if I let it have a go at it? To be safe, run it on an image of your filesystem first. You can use the dd command to take the image, then run e2fsck on it. Afterwards mount it and make sure everything looks kosher. That is assuming you have enough spare space, of course. If not then you should at least run e2fsck with -n first to find out what it wants to do. Personally, my risk tolerance would be closely correlated with the quality of my backups. Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan - 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/