From: Simon Matthews Subject: Re: Filesystem size problem. Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 21:27:07 -0800 Message-ID: References: <6B4536F9-A059-45AC-8A14-85879FC4AC79@dilger.ca> <46f8665e-c3b5-b2e9-346b-4bbb380bb6e2@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from mail-qk0-f180.google.com ([209.85.220.180]:35316 "EHLO mail-qk0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752204AbcLJF1I (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:27:08 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-f180.google.com with SMTP id n204so37880754qke.2 for ; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:27:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <46f8665e-c3b5-b2e9-346b-4bbb380bb6e2@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 12/9/16 2:29 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2016, at 10:40 PM, Simon Matthews wrote: >>> >>> I have an ext3 filesystem that will not mount under newer versions of >>> the kernel and I hope someone here can help. >>> >>> Obviously, one solution is "backup and re-create from scratch". I have >>> the backups, but I hope that there may be a quicker method to fix the >>> issues. >>> >>> The root issue is that the filesystem is very slightly smaller than >>> the allocated space. > > So the device is now smaller than the filesystem thinks, right? Yes, I got that the wrong way round in my original email. The device is very slightly smaller than the filesystem. Simon