I cleanly shut down my system, and when it came back up, this was
reported:
* Checking file systems...
Sat May 9 13:00:53 2009
fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve
'UUID=52e18bf7-cbe9-4f58-824c-5c943dd074de'^M
fsck died with exit status 8
For some reason it thinks it is ext2:
root@server:/var/log/fsck# fsck -n /dev/md0 | head -5
fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
fsck.ext2: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
Inode table for group 0 is not in group. (block 3251545658)
WARNING: SEVERE DATA LOSS POSSIBLE.
Relocate? No
Upon investigation, i'm not sure what to do. I really don't want to lose
the data
on this disk as it will take ages to rebuild (like weeks!).
The system has been in operation for about 2-3months. The data on the
disk
is mostly video + some virtual machines.
Any suggestions for repairing it? I have not done any repairs so far.
Should i just
Run fsck.ext4? Is there something i should try?
root@server:/var/log/fsck# uname -a
Linux server 2.6.28-12-server #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 20:22:39 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@server:/var/log/fsck# fsck.ext4 -n /dev/md0 | head -5
e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
Inode table for group 0 is not in group. (block 3251545658)
WARNING: SEVERE DATA LOSS POSSIBLE.
Relocate? No
root@server:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90
Creation Time : Sun Mar 15 12:15:20 2009
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 5860574976 (5589.08 GiB 6001.23 GB)
Used Dev Size : 976762496 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Raid Devices : 7
Total Devices : 7
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Sat May 9 12:42:47 2009
State : clean
Active Devices : 7
Working Devices : 7
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 64K
UUID : c589dbe9:8dfff933:01f9e43d:ac30fbff (local to host
server)
Events : 0.305524
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 0 0 active sync /dev/sda
1 8 16 1 active sync /dev/sdb
2 8 32 2 active sync /dev/sdc
3 8 64 3 active sync /dev/sde
4 8 80 4 active sync /dev/sdf
5 8 96 5 active sync /dev/sdg
6 8 112 6 active sync /dev/sdh
root@server:~#
root@server:/var/log/fsck# dumpe2fs /dev/md0 |head -60
dumpe2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
ext2fs_read_bb_inode: Invalid argument
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: 52e18bf7-cbe9-4f58-824c-5c943dd074de
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype
extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink
extra_isize
Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: not clean with errors
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 366288896
Block count: 1465143744
Reserved block count: 73257187
Free blocks: 1041313557
Free inodes: 366151494
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Reserved GDT blocks: 674
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8192
Inode blocks per group: 512
Flex block group size: 16
Filesystem created: Sun Mar 15 12:17:10 2009
Last mount time: Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009
Last write time: Sat May 9 12:31:43 2009
Mount count: 9
Maximum mount count: 29
Last checked: Sun Mar 15 12:17:10 2009
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Fri Sep 11 12:17:10 2009
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 256
Required extra isize: 28
Desired extra isize: 28
Default directory hash: half_md4
Directory Hash Seed: 49785c19-388f-444c-977a-886c147a8ae6
Journal backup: inode blocks
Group 0: (Blocks 0-32767)
Checksum 0x70e6, unused inodes 34168
Primary superblock at 0, Group descriptors at 1-350
Reserved GDT blocks at 351-1024
Block bitmap at 98318778 (+98318778), Inode bitmap at 837719297
(+837719297)
Inode table at 3251545658-3251546169 (+3251545658)
58662 free blocks, 33159 free inodes, 56553 directories, 34168 unused
inodes
Group 1: (Blocks 32768-65535) [INODE_UNINIT, ITABLE_ZEROED]
Checksum 0x6275, unused inodes 29973
Backup superblock at 32768, Group descriptors at 32769-33118
Reserved GDT blocks at 33119-33792
Block bitmap at 1123273429 (+1123240661), Inode bitmap at 3031071618
(+3031038850)
Inode table at 3149300410-3149300921 (+3149267642)
1881 free blocks, 46059 free inodes, 25281 directories, 29973 unused
inodes
Group 2: (Blocks 65536-98303) [INODE_UNINIT, ITABLE_ZEROED]
Checksum 0x1a0b, unused inodes 51590
Block bitmap at 1509085182 (+1509019646), Inode bitmap at 2884607537
(+2884542001)
Inode table at 1940584034-1940584545 (+1940518498)
3770 free blocks, 40683 free inodes, 43709 directories, 51590 unused
inodes
Group 3: (Blocks 98304-131071) [ITABLE_ZEROED]
Checksum 0xc3ec, unused inodes 47423
Backup superblock at 98304, Group descriptors at 98305-98654
Reserved GDT blocks at 98655-99328
Block bitmap at 383505502 (+383407198), Inode bitmap at 1784600367
(+1784502063)
Inode table at 798930664-798931175 (+798832360)
63118 free blocks, 7143 free inodes, 19773 directories, 47423 unused
inodes
root@server:/var/log/fsck# dmesg |egrep -i "sd|md|raid|fsck"
[ 0.000000] AMD AuthenticAMD
[ 0.000000] RAMDISK: 37778000 - 37fef9b2
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FE020, 0014 (r0 INTEL )
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT CFEFD038, 004C (r1 INTEL D975XBX2 AE8
1000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT CFEF8000, 3F11 (r1 INTEL D975XBX2 AE8
MSFT 1000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEF2000, 01BC (r1 INTEL CpuPm AE8
MSFT 1000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEF1000, 0175 (r1 INTEL Cpu0Ist AE8
MSFT 1000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEF0000, 0175 (r1 INTEL Cpu1Ist AE8
MSFT 1000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEAB000, 0175 (r1 INTEL Cpu2Ist AE8
MSFT 1000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEAA000, 0175 (r1 INTEL Cpu3Ist AE8
MSFT 1000013)
[ 0.000000] #3 [0037778000 - 0037fef9b2] RAMDISK ==>
[0037778000 - 0037fef9b2]
[ 0.000000] [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200043fffff] PMD ->
[ffff880028200000-ffff88002c5fffff] on node 0
[ 0.013732] ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT
[ 0.920745] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 1.835081] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 1.835147] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[ 1.835891] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x40b0
irq 14
[ 1.835893] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x40b8
irq 15
[ 2.056689] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x40c8 ctl 0x40e4 bmdma
0x40a0 irq 19
[ 2.056691] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x40c0 ctl 0x40e0 bmdma
0x40a8 irq 19
[ 2.250605] ata3.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
[ 2.510628] ata4.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
[ 2.591311] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 2.591402] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 2.591414] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2.591416] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 2.591435] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2.591478] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 2.591489] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2.591490] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 2.591508] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2.591511] sda: unknown partition table
[ 2.600717] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2.600745] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 2.600855] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 2.600866] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2.600868] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 2.600886] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2.600924] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 2.600934] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2.600936] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 2.600954] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2.600957] sdb: unknown partition table
[ 3.072070] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 3.072115] sd 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 3.072178] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 3.072237] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 3.072248] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 3.072249] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3.072268] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.072303] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 3.072313] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 3.072315] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3.072333] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.072336] sdc: unknown partition table
[ 3.079128] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[ 3.079156] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 3.079257] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] 293046768 512-byte hardware sectors:
(150 GB/139 GiB)
[ 3.079268] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[ 3.079269] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3.079287] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.079322] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] 293046768 512-byte hardware sectors:
(150 GB/139 GiB)
[ 3.079332] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[ 3.079334] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 3.079352] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.079354] sdd: sdd1 sdd2 < sdd5 >
[ 3.101054] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[ 3.101107] sd 3:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 3.470676] ata5.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
[ 3.880672] ata6.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
[ 4.290698] ata7.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
[ 4.700696] ata8.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
[ 4.740750] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 4.740831] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4.740842] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[ 4.740844] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.740862] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4.740898] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4.740909] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[ 4.740910] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.740928] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4.740930] sde: unknown partition table
[ 4.749416] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
[ 4.749443] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[ 4.749488] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 4.749546] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4.749557] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
[ 4.749559] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.749576] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4.749613] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4.749623] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
[ 4.749624] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.749642] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4.749645] sdf: unknown partition table
[ 4.759788] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk
[ 4.759815] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
[ 4.759859] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 4.759919] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4.759930] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
[ 4.759932] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.759950] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4.759986] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4.759997] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
[ 4.759998] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.760022] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4.760027] sdg: unknown partition table
[ 4.771408] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI disk
[ 4.771439] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[ 4.771483] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 4.771540] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4.771551] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
[ 4.771552] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.771570] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4.771608] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
(1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 4.771618] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
[ 4.771620] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 4.771637] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4.771640] sdh: unknown partition table
[ 4.781982] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI disk
[ 4.782012] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
[ 4.942482] block sdd5: hash matches
[ 5.048354] md: linear personality registered for level -1
[ 5.050051] md: multipath personality registered for level -4
[ 5.051538] md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
[ 5.053697] md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
[ 5.271272] raid6: int64x1 1922 MB/s
[ 5.441269] raid6: int64x2 2639 MB/s
[ 5.611280] raid6: int64x4 2025 MB/s
[ 5.781295] raid6: int64x8 1789 MB/s
[ 5.951290] raid6: sse2x1 3078 MB/s
[ 6.121297] raid6: sse2x2 3651 MB/s
[ 6.291275] raid6: sse2x4 7193 MB/s
[ 6.291281] raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (7193 MB/s)
[ 6.291283] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
[ 6.291285] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
[ 6.291286] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
[ 6.296306] md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
[ 6.494887] md: bind<sde>
[ 6.555824] md: bind<sdf>
[ 6.622315] md: bind<sdh>
[ 6.703948] md: bind<sda>
[ 6.780815] md: bind<sdg>
[ 7.023507] md: bind<sdc>
[ 7.223400] md: bind<sdb>
[ 7.226582] raid5: device sdb operational as raid disk 1
[ 7.226584] raid5: device sdc operational as raid disk 2
[ 7.226586] raid5: device sdg operational as raid disk 5
[ 7.226587] raid5: device sda operational as raid disk 0
[ 7.226588] raid5: device sdh operational as raid disk 6
[ 7.226589] raid5: device sdf operational as raid disk 4
[ 7.226591] raid5: device sde operational as raid disk 3
[ 7.227201] raid5: allocated 7450kB for md0
[ 7.227203] raid5: raid level 5 set md0 active with 7 out of 7
devices, algorithm 2
[ 7.227205] RAID5 conf printout:
[ 7.227207] disk 0, o:1, dev:sda
[ 7.227208] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb
[ 7.227209] disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc
[ 7.227210] disk 3, o:1, dev:sde
[ 7.227212] disk 4, o:1, dev:sdf
[ 7.227213] disk 5, o:1, dev:sdg
[ 7.227214] disk 6, o:1, dev:sdh
[ 7.228333] md0: unknown partition table
[ 12.709829] Adding 5992204k swap on /dev/sdd5. Priority:-1 extents:1
across:5992204k
[ 13.245731] EXT3 FS on sdd1, internal journal
[ 317.618298] type=1505 audit(1241888758.168:7):
operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name2="default" pid=2550
[ 318.016442] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
[ 322.767731] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state
recovery directory
[ 322.774119] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
From: Don Bowman
>
> I cleanly shut down my system, and when it came back up, this was
> reported:
>
> * Checking file systems...
> Sat May 9 13:00:53 2009
>
> fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve 'UUID=52e18bf7-cbe9-4f58-824c-
> 5c943dd074de'^M
> fsck died with exit status 8
To follow my own email, the results of the 'findsuper' program are:
starting at 0, with 512 byte increments
byte_offset byte_start byte_end fs_blocks blksz grp
last_mount_time sb_uuid label
1024 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 0 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
134217728 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 1 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
402653184 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 3 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
671088640 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 5 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
939524096 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 7 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
1207959552 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 9 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
3355443200 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 25 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
3623878656 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 27 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
6576668672 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 49 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
10871635968 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 81 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
16777216000 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 125 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
32614907904 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 243 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
46036680704 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 343 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
83886080000 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 625 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
97844723712 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 729 Wed Apr
22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
... [still going]
Can this help me somehow?
On May 09, 2009 13:14 -0400, Don Bowman wrote:
> I cleanly shut down my system, and when it came back up, this was
> reported:
>
> * Checking file systems...
> Sat May 9 13:00:53 2009
>
> fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve
> 'UUID=52e18bf7-cbe9-4f58-824c-5c943dd074de'^M
> fsck died with exit status 8
>
> For some reason it thinks it is ext2:
>
> root@server:/var/log/fsck# fsck -n /dev/md0 | head -5
> fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> fsck.ext2: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
> Inode table for group 0 is not in group. (block 3251545658)
> WARNING: SEVERE DATA LOSS POSSIBLE.
> Relocate? No
Looks like the beginning of your disk is corrupted/overwritten.
It is strange that the backup descriptors didn't have something
more sane... Hmm, it looks like e2fsck isn't so great at trying
the backup group descriptors when there is a problem. It checks
the superblock, and assumes the group descriptors are OK and/or
need to be fixed.
It would probably be very useful if e2fsck verified the superblock
and group descriptors separately and/or printed a message like:
"group descriptors in group M corrupted, trying backup group N.
Run 'e2fsck -b {blocksize} -B (N * 32768)' to try a different group".
Ideally it would just try until it finds a group that has no errors.
Alternately, picking some backup group in the middle of the filesystem
is probably the safest place, instead of starting at the beginning of
the disk.
> Upon investigation, i'm not sure what to do. I really don't want to lose
> the data on this disk as it will take ages to rebuild (like weeks!).
>
> The system has been in operation for about 2-3months. The data on the
> disk is mostly video + some virtual machines.
>
> Any suggestions for repairing it? I have not done any repairs so far.
> Should i just Run fsck.ext4? Is there something i should try?
If you have the ability, make a backup copy of the full device first
using "dd" to copy everything. If your data is worth more than maybe
$500 then it justifies going out and buying a duplicate RAID setup.
You can use it for holding proper backups later...
Then, after you've done the backup, run "e2fsck -f -b (32768 * i) -B 4096",
where "i" is one of 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 25, 27, 49, 81, 125, ... 3^n, 5^n, 7^n
to select a backup group explicitly. Using a higer numbered backup group
is probably safer than group 1 or 3 (if there was corruption at the start
of your disk).
> root@server:/var/log/fsck# uname -a
> Linux server 2.6.28-12-server #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 20:22:39 UTC 2009
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> root@server:/var/log/fsck# fsck.ext4 -n /dev/md0 | head -5
> e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
> Inode table for group 0 is not in group. (block 3251545658)
> WARNING: SEVERE DATA LOSS POSSIBLE.
> Relocate? No
>
> root@server:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
> /dev/md0:
> Version : 00.90
> Creation Time : Sun Mar 15 12:15:20 2009
> Raid Level : raid5
> Array Size : 5860574976 (5589.08 GiB 6001.23 GB)
> Used Dev Size : 976762496 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
> Raid Devices : 7
> Total Devices : 7
> Preferred Minor : 0
> Persistence : Superblock is persistent
>
> Update Time : Sat May 9 12:42:47 2009
> State : clean
> Active Devices : 7
> Working Devices : 7
> Failed Devices : 0
> Spare Devices : 0
>
> Layout : left-symmetric
> Chunk Size : 64K
>
> UUID : c589dbe9:8dfff933:01f9e43d:ac30fbff (local to host
> server)
> Events : 0.305524
>
> Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
> 0 8 0 0 active sync /dev/sda
> 1 8 16 1 active sync /dev/sdb
> 2 8 32 2 active sync /dev/sdc
> 3 8 64 3 active sync /dev/sde
> 4 8 80 4 active sync /dev/sdf
> 5 8 96 5 active sync /dev/sdg
> 6 8 112 6 active sync /dev/sdh
> root@server:~#
>
>
> root@server:/var/log/fsck# dumpe2fs /dev/md0 |head -60
> dumpe2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> ext2fs_read_bb_inode: Invalid argument
> Filesystem volume name: <none>
> Last mounted on: <not available>
> Filesystem UUID: 52e18bf7-cbe9-4f58-824c-5c943dd074de
> Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
> Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
> Filesystem features: ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype
> extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink
> extra_isize
> Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash
> Default mount options: (none)
> Filesystem state: not clean with errors
> Errors behavior: Continue
> Filesystem OS type: Linux
> Inode count: 366288896
> Block count: 1465143744
> Reserved block count: 73257187
> Free blocks: 1041313557
> Free inodes: 366151494
> First block: 0
> Block size: 4096
> Fragment size: 4096
> Reserved GDT blocks: 674
> Blocks per group: 32768
> Fragments per group: 32768
> Inodes per group: 8192
> Inode blocks per group: 512
> Flex block group size: 16
> Filesystem created: Sun Mar 15 12:17:10 2009
> Last mount time: Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009
> Last write time: Sat May 9 12:31:43 2009
> Mount count: 9
> Maximum mount count: 29
> Last checked: Sun Mar 15 12:17:10 2009
> Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
> Next check after: Fri Sep 11 12:17:10 2009
> Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
> Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
> First inode: 11
> Inode size: 256
> Required extra isize: 28
> Desired extra isize: 28
> Default directory hash: half_md4
> Directory Hash Seed: 49785c19-388f-444c-977a-886c147a8ae6
> Journal backup: inode blocks
>
> Group 0: (Blocks 0-32767)
> Checksum 0x70e6, unused inodes 34168
> Primary superblock at 0, Group descriptors at 1-350
> Reserved GDT blocks at 351-1024
> Block bitmap at 98318778 (+98318778), Inode bitmap at 837719297
> (+837719297)
> Inode table at 3251545658-3251546169 (+3251545658)
> 58662 free blocks, 33159 free inodes, 56553 directories, 34168 unused
> inodes
> Group 1: (Blocks 32768-65535) [INODE_UNINIT, ITABLE_ZEROED]
> Checksum 0x6275, unused inodes 29973
> Backup superblock at 32768, Group descriptors at 32769-33118
> Reserved GDT blocks at 33119-33792
> Block bitmap at 1123273429 (+1123240661), Inode bitmap at 3031071618
> (+3031038850)
> Inode table at 3149300410-3149300921 (+3149267642)
> 1881 free blocks, 46059 free inodes, 25281 directories, 29973 unused
> inodes
> Group 2: (Blocks 65536-98303) [INODE_UNINIT, ITABLE_ZEROED]
> Checksum 0x1a0b, unused inodes 51590
> Block bitmap at 1509085182 (+1509019646), Inode bitmap at 2884607537
> (+2884542001)
> Inode table at 1940584034-1940584545 (+1940518498)
> 3770 free blocks, 40683 free inodes, 43709 directories, 51590 unused
> inodes
> Group 3: (Blocks 98304-131071) [ITABLE_ZEROED]
> Checksum 0xc3ec, unused inodes 47423
> Backup superblock at 98304, Group descriptors at 98305-98654
> Reserved GDT blocks at 98655-99328
> Block bitmap at 383505502 (+383407198), Inode bitmap at 1784600367
> (+1784502063)
> Inode table at 798930664-798931175 (+798832360)
> 63118 free blocks, 7143 free inodes, 19773 directories, 47423 unused
> inodes
>
>
>
> root@server:/var/log/fsck# dmesg |egrep -i "sd|md|raid|fsck"
> [ 0.000000] AMD AuthenticAMD
> [ 0.000000] RAMDISK: 37778000 - 37fef9b2
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FE020, 0014 (r0 INTEL )
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT CFEFD038, 004C (r1 INTEL D975XBX2 AE8
> 1000013)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT CFEF8000, 3F11 (r1 INTEL D975XBX2 AE8
> MSFT 1000013)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEF2000, 01BC (r1 INTEL CpuPm AE8
> MSFT 1000013)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEF1000, 0175 (r1 INTEL Cpu0Ist AE8
> MSFT 1000013)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEF0000, 0175 (r1 INTEL Cpu1Ist AE8
> MSFT 1000013)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEAB000, 0175 (r1 INTEL Cpu2Ist AE8
> MSFT 1000013)
> [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT CFEAA000, 0175 (r1 INTEL Cpu3Ist AE8
> MSFT 1000013)
> [ 0.000000] #3 [0037778000 - 0037fef9b2] RAMDISK ==>
> [0037778000 - 0037fef9b2]
> [ 0.000000] [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200043fffff] PMD ->
> [ffff880028200000-ffff88002c5fffff] on node 0
> [ 0.013732] ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT
> [ 0.920745] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
> [ 1.835081] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
> [ 1.835147] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
> [ 1.835891] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x40b0
> irq 14
> [ 1.835893] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x40b8
> irq 15
> [ 2.056689] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x40c8 ctl 0x40e4 bmdma
> 0x40a0 irq 19
> [ 2.056691] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x40c0 ctl 0x40e0 bmdma
> 0x40a8 irq 19
> [ 2.250605] ata3.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
> [ 2.510628] ata4.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
> [ 2.591311] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
> SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [ 2.591402] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 2.591414] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> [ 2.591416] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 2.591435] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 2.591478] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 2.591489] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> [ 2.591490] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 2.591508] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 2.591511] sda: unknown partition table
> [ 2.600717] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 2.600745] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
> [ 2.600855] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 2.600866] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> [ 2.600868] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 2.600886] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 2.600924] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 2.600934] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> [ 2.600936] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 2.600954] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 2.600957] sdb: unknown partition table
> [ 3.072070] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 3.072115] sd 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> [ 3.072178] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
> SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [ 3.072237] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 3.072248] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> [ 3.072249] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 3.072268] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 3.072303] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 3.072313] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> [ 3.072315] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 3.072333] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 3.072336] sdc: unknown partition table
> [ 3.079128] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 3.079156] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> [ 3.079257] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] 293046768 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (150 GB/139 GiB)
> [ 3.079268] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
> [ 3.079269] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 3.079287] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 3.079322] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] 293046768 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (150 GB/139 GiB)
> [ 3.079332] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
> [ 3.079334] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 3.079352] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 3.079354] sdd: sdd1 sdd2 < sdd5 >
> [ 3.101054] sd 3:0:1:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 3.101107] sd 3:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
> [ 3.470676] ata5.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
> [ 3.880672] ata6.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
> [ 4.290698] ata7.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
> [ 4.700696] ata8.00: ATA-8: ST31000340AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
> [ 4.740750] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
> SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [ 4.740831] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 4.740842] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
> [ 4.740844] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 4.740862] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 4.740898] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 4.740909] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
> [ 4.740910] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 4.740928] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 4.740930] sde: unknown partition table
> [ 4.749416] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 4.749443] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
> [ 4.749488] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
> SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [ 4.749546] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 4.749557] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
> [ 4.749559] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 4.749576] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 4.749613] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 4.749623] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
> [ 4.749624] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 4.749642] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 4.749645] sdf: unknown partition table
> [ 4.759788] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 4.759815] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
> [ 4.759859] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
> SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [ 4.759919] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 4.759930] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
> [ 4.759932] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 4.759950] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 4.759986] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 4.759997] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
> [ 4.759998] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 4.760022] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 4.760027] sdg: unknown partition table
> [ 4.771408] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 4.771439] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
> [ 4.771483] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31000340AS
> SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [ 4.771540] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 4.771551] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
> [ 4.771552] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 4.771570] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 4.771608] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> [ 4.771618] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
> [ 4.771620] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [ 4.771637] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [ 4.771640] sdh: unknown partition table
> [ 4.781982] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI disk
> [ 4.782012] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
> [ 4.942482] block sdd5: hash matches
> [ 5.048354] md: linear personality registered for level -1
> [ 5.050051] md: multipath personality registered for level -4
> [ 5.051538] md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
> [ 5.053697] md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
> [ 5.271272] raid6: int64x1 1922 MB/s
> [ 5.441269] raid6: int64x2 2639 MB/s
> [ 5.611280] raid6: int64x4 2025 MB/s
> [ 5.781295] raid6: int64x8 1789 MB/s
> [ 5.951290] raid6: sse2x1 3078 MB/s
> [ 6.121297] raid6: sse2x2 3651 MB/s
> [ 6.291275] raid6: sse2x4 7193 MB/s
> [ 6.291281] raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (7193 MB/s)
> [ 6.291283] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
> [ 6.291285] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
> [ 6.291286] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
> [ 6.296306] md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
> [ 6.494887] md: bind<sde>
> [ 6.555824] md: bind<sdf>
> [ 6.622315] md: bind<sdh>
> [ 6.703948] md: bind<sda>
> [ 6.780815] md: bind<sdg>
> [ 7.023507] md: bind<sdc>
> [ 7.223400] md: bind<sdb>
> [ 7.226582] raid5: device sdb operational as raid disk 1
> [ 7.226584] raid5: device sdc operational as raid disk 2
> [ 7.226586] raid5: device sdg operational as raid disk 5
> [ 7.226587] raid5: device sda operational as raid disk 0
> [ 7.226588] raid5: device sdh operational as raid disk 6
> [ 7.226589] raid5: device sdf operational as raid disk 4
> [ 7.226591] raid5: device sde operational as raid disk 3
> [ 7.227201] raid5: allocated 7450kB for md0
> [ 7.227203] raid5: raid level 5 set md0 active with 7 out of 7
> devices, algorithm 2
> [ 7.227205] RAID5 conf printout:
> [ 7.227207] disk 0, o:1, dev:sda
> [ 7.227208] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb
> [ 7.227209] disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc
> [ 7.227210] disk 3, o:1, dev:sde
> [ 7.227212] disk 4, o:1, dev:sdf
> [ 7.227213] disk 5, o:1, dev:sdg
> [ 7.227214] disk 6, o:1, dev:sdh
> [ 7.228333] md0: unknown partition table
> [ 12.709829] Adding 5992204k swap on /dev/sdd5. Priority:-1 extents:1
> across:5992204k
> [ 13.245731] EXT3 FS on sdd1, internal journal
> [ 317.618298] type=1505 audit(1241888758.168:7):
> operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name2="default" pid=2550
> [ 318.016442] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
> [ 322.767731] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state
> recovery directory
> [ 322.774119] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
>
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
On May 09, 2009 14:36 -0400, Don Bowman wrote:
> To follow my own email, the results of the 'findsuper' program are:
>
> starting at 0, with 512 byte increments
> byte_offset byte_start byte_end fs_blocks blksz grp last_mount_time sb_uuid label
> 1024 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 0 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 134217728 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 1 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 402653184 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 3 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 671088640 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 5 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 939524096 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 7 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 1207959552 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 9 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 3355443200 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 25 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 3623878656 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 27 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 6576668672 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 49 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 10871635968 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 81 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 16777216000 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 125 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 32614907904 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 243 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 46036680704 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 343 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 83886080000 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 625 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> 97844723712 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 729 Wed Apr 22 19:04:50 2009 52e18bf7
> ... [still going]
>
> Can this help me somehow?
These are all showing available backup superblocks and group descriptors.
Pick one of the "grp" numbers and use that as the argument for "-b" per
my previous email: "e2fsck -f -b $((729 * 32768)) -B 4096 /dev/XXX".
A backup first is still a good idea, however.
Note that this appears to be a bug that has been hit by several Ubuntu
users. I would suggest to upgrade to the latest vanilla kernel (at
least 2.6.29.stable, search the archives for details), which has fixed
it for many users.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-ext4-
>
> On May 09, 2009 14:36 -0400, Don Bowman wrote:
> > To follow my own email, the results of the 'findsuper' program are:
> >
> > starting at 0, with 512 byte increments
> > byte_offset byte_start byte_end fs_blocks blksz grp
> last_mount_time sb_uuid label
> > 1024 0 6001228775424 1465143744 4096 0 Wed
...
> >
> > Can this help me somehow?
>
> These are all showing available backup superblocks and group
> descriptors.
> Pick one of the "grp" numbers and use that as the argument for "-b"
per
> my previous email: "e2fsck -f -b $((729 * 32768)) -B 4096 /dev/XXX".
> A backup first is still a good idea, however.
>
> Note that this appears to be a bug that has been hit by several Ubuntu
> users. I would suggest to upgrade to the latest vanilla kernel (at
> least 2.6.29.stable, search the archives for details), which has fixed
> it for many users.
So i upgraded to 2.26.29 generic.
I than ran e2fsck as above. It ran for ~4 days, and then produced this
after processing ~100% of the inodes:
Error allocating 512 contiguous block(s) in block group 44709 for inode
table: Could not allocate block in ext2 filesystem
Relocating group 44710's block bitmap to 1465057282...
Relocating group 44712's block bitmap to 1465122817...
Relocating group 44712's inode table to 1465132694...
Resize inode (re)creation failed: A block group is missing an inode
table.Abort? yes
e2fsck: aborted
so am i stuck?