I have a disk where serveral files have a file size that is much bigger then the space they actually use. THe file size is bogus. In the example below, the size is reported as 4.2MB but the file is really supposed to be on 116K which is true accoring to du and the block list from debugfs. However, doing a 'cat |wc' file actually gives me 4.2MB bytes. Where are those extra bytes coming from since the inode certainly does not have the blocks! Doing a fcsk does not fix the situation as shown below. This is on a RH7.3 machine running a 2.4.20 kernel root@1[bh-sm5-per-006]# debugfs /dev/hda4 debugfs 1.35-WIP (31-Jan-2004) debugfs: stat users/greve/fbirn-hp-fsfast/dunc-data/dunc-101.1/bold/bh-sm5-per-006/beta_008.bfloat Inode: 5980769 Type: regular Mode: 0777 Flags: 0x0 Generation: 4199683 297 User: 5652 Group: 5652 Size: 4243456 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 232 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x406066ae -- Tue Mar 23 11:32:46 2004 atime: 0x40e5b58c -- Fri Jul 2 15:20:44 2004 mtime: 0x406066ae -- Tue Mar 23 11:32:46 2004 BLOCKS: (0):19431070, (1-2):19431076-19431077, (3):19431079, (4):19431130, (5):19431136, (6-11):24618332-24618337, (IND):24618338, (12-27):24618339-24618354 TOTAL: 29 debugfs: quit root@1[/]# umount /mnt/greve/old/4 root@1[/]# e2fsck -y /dev/hda4 e2fsck 1.35-WIP (31-Jan-2004) /dev/hda4: clean, 1467459/18448384 files, 33585486/36871183 blocks (check after next mount) root@1[/]# e2fsck -y -f /dev/hda4 e2fsck 1.35-WIP (31-Jan-2004) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/hda4: 1467459/18448384 files (6.4% non-contiguous), 33585486/36871183 blocks root@1[/]# mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/greve/old/4 root@1[/]# debugfs /dev/hda4 debugfs 1.35-WIP (31-Jan-2004) debugfs: stat users/greve/fbirn-hp-fsfast/dunc-data/dunc-101.1/bold/bh-sm5-per-006/beta_008.bfloat Inode: 5980769 Type: regular Mode: 0777 Flags: 0x0 Generation: 4199683 297 User: 5652 Group: 5652 Size: 4243456 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 232 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x406066ae -- Tue Mar 23 11:32:46 2004 atime: 0x40e5b58c -- Fri Jul 2 15:20:44 2004 mtime: 0x406066ae -- Tue Mar 23 11:32:46 2004 BLOCKS: (0):19431070, (1-2):19431076-19431077, (3):19431079, (4):19431130, (5):19431136, (6-11):24618332-24618337, (IND):24618338, (12-27):24618339-24618354 TOTAL: 29 debugfs: -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Raines email: raines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging 149 (2301) 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 USA _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
