From: Andre Noll Subject: Re: Memory allocation failed, e2fsck: aborted Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:36:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20100820143647.GY16603@skl-net.de> References: <20100818140422.GL27457@skl-net.de> <20100819005404.GO21182@thunk.org> <20100819131017.GV16603@skl-net.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="35rzUHtxHARXKmYf" Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4 , Marcus Hartmann To: Ted Ts'o Return-path: Received: from systemlinux.org ([83.151.29.59]:59809 "EHLO m18s25.vlinux.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751841Ab0HTOg7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:36:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100819131017.GV16603@skl-net.de> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --35rzUHtxHARXKmYf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 19, 15:10, Andre Noll wrote: > > Something which *might* help (but will take a long time) is to add to > > your /etc/e2fsck.conf (if you have one; if not create one wiht these > > contents): > >=20 > > [scratch_files] > > directory =3D /var/cache/fsck > >=20 > > (And then make sure /var/cache/fsck exists.) >=20 > Thanks for the hint. It is running for an hour now and I will report > back tomorrow. ATM, it's at 1% and the two files in /var/cache/fsck > are ~50M large. It got much slower: 4.8% after one day. So I cancelled the fsck and am copying the raw device to a 64bit machine and run fsck there, as Andreas suggested. Thanks Andre --=20 The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe --35rzUHtxHARXKmYf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFMbpL/Wto1QDEAkw8RAmsUAJwL3l+wlBNcldanMRgtUb/ddTA53gCYkbR+ Jp9RT4x87Qj1XAOEtRIpXw== =wxtH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --35rzUHtxHARXKmYf--