From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: e2fsck doesn't repair broken ext4 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:06:53 -0600 Message-ID: <4B9AC90D.6040904@redhat.com> References: <20100312205435.GG32664@alea.gnuu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Sommer?= Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32255 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933282Ab0CLXHC (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:07:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100312205435.GG32664@alea.gnuu.de> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: J=F6rg Sommer wrote: > Hi, >=20 > after a system crash, I had a problem with ext4 that e2fsck didn't fi= x. I > don't know if e2fsck or ext4 was wrong. In the end, I had to remove t= he > broken directory, which succeed and solved my problem. >=20 > These are the steps I did: >=20 > 01 % e2fsck -fy /dev/root > 02 % dumpe2fsck -x /dev/root > 03 % e2image -r /dev/root Great, thanks for gathering the images. What version of e2fsprogs were you using? -Eric > 04 % apt-get install > 05 % dmesg > 06 % dumpe2fs -x /dev/root > 07 % e2image -r /dev/root > 08 % e2fsck -y /dev/root > 09 % dumpe2fs -x /dev/root > 10 % e2image -r /dev/root > 11 % apt-get install > 12 % dmesg >=20 > I've put the output and images of all these commands at > . I hope they help you some= how. >=20 > Regards, J=F6rg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html