From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: e2fsck repeatedly asks to clear the same entry? Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:34:56 -0600 Message-ID: <50B10540.1060405@redhat.com> References: <07FA29B6-B150-4A93-B6FF-3072DF31B577@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Casey , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:19764 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751891Ab2KXRe6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:34:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <07FA29B6-B150-4A93-B6FF-3072DF31B577@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/23/12 1:18 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2012-11-23, at 11:26, Mark Casey wrote: >> I'm in a bit of a loop trying to fix my ext4 filesystem; it always >> goes like this even after several passes. ... > Normally I'd say that getting a e2image of the filesystem would be > useful for debugging and to create a test case, but since the > filesystem is 16TB in size that won't be practical. It might not be that bad. You could make a raw e2image, mount it, remove some of the non-affected dir trees, (maybe make another e2image -r of that modified image), and it might compress pretty well. Just a thought, if the email debugging doesn't yield results. -Eric