On Aug 31, 2010, at 7:27 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Sean Carolan wrote:
>> I have a large (1.5TB) partition with millions of files on it. e2fsck has
>> been running nearly 12 hours and is still on "Checking directory
>> structure".
>> Any tips for speeding this along?
>
> Kill it. And make sure it doesn't try to do it. There's a known bug with
> fsck (at least I think it was with CentOS, not *bleah* FC13). On large
> drives that we're doing online backups, it hits 70% and that's all she
> wrote: it never ends, and I need to kill it.
>
> mark
FWIW, after our backup server's 4 TB ext3 filesystem crashed, I found
this gem somewhere on the internet, applied it, and was able to successfully
fsck and repair the file system in less than a day.
This is in the source from e2fsprogs-1.39
e2fsprogs-1.39/lib/ext2fs
*** icount.c 2005-09-06 02:40:14.000000000 -0700
--- icount.c.new 2010-04-28 10:38:39.000000000 -0700
***************
*** 251,256 ****
--- 251,259 ----
range = ((float) (ino - lowval)) /
(highval - lowval);
mid = low + ((int) (range * (high-low)));
+ /* Trap mid due to floating point error */
+ if (mid > high) mid = high;
+ if (mid < low) mid = low;
}
#endif
if (ino == icount->list[mid].ino) {
--
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