--DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (There really doesn't seem to be a dedicated e2fsprogs list, so this was the next-best place I could find. I don't place much faith in the sourceforge forums..) The filesystem in question is a 480 gig ext3 partition, on a hardware RAID5 controller. It's approximately 90% full, with something like 115K files. Kernel 2.4.20-pre4, on a Duron 900. As I type this, e2fsck has used up ~280 minutes of CPU time and has a RSS size of 78 megs. It's been in stage2 for at least three hours with not so much as a flicker of disk activity. (strace is similarly quiet) Initially, I gave up on waiting the first couple of attempts, and upgraded from e2fsprogs-1.27 to 1.28-WIP-0817. That didn't seem to make any difference. I'm invoking e2fsck with '-d -v -tt', and stage1 spat out statitics when it finished, but stage2 is just sitting there.. Any ideas? It sounds like a e2fsck bug, but until I know the filesystem is clean, I don't want to clear the dirty flag and mount it read/write. The "backup/mkfs/restore" isn't quite practical in this case as I don't have another half-terrabyte of storage readily available. (And what's to keep this from happening again, for example, when the mount count limit is reached next time?)=20 - Pizza --=20 Solomon Peachy pizza@f*cktheusers.org I'm not broke, but I'm badly bent. ICQ #1318344 Patience comes to those who wait. Melbourne, FL Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur --DocE+STaALJfprDB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9aF+0PuLgii2759ARAhXuAJ9chMPzKCHxbHJ6IVbl2UDavJYzIwCg9mBl 3JRQhTIOdd/D2amjYHw83YE= =FZo4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DocE+STaALJfprDB--