> I *think* that the problem was, that the volume was full, and fsck > needed free space to clone blocks or something like that. I couldn't > free up space on the volume however, since when I tried it sometimes > caused kernel oopses, sometimes made the volume go read-only, and when > it didn't, it didn't free a single block (from du's point of view > anyway). I'm sorry, but I cannot reproduce such an error in the mannor in which you describe; hence, I am unable to create a bug report for it. Screen output from my attempt to reproduce it is below. I will continue to try several other scenarios before giving up completely, but I thought you should know someone is looking into this problem (even though I can't yet find it). If you have more details, like screen output from during the error, feel free to contact myself or anyone else on the e2fsprogs team. Joseph D. Wagner wagnerjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ## Here's the status of the disk before I do anything to it. ## Notice the file system only has 3 free blocks. # e2fsck -f /dev/hdb11 e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-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 /test: 45/1048576 files (42.2% non-contiguous), 2094109/2094112 blocks ## Here I force a Duplicate Block error into the file system. ## Notice I force in 4 duplicate blocks, so the system will ## run out of space before it can clone all the duplicate blocks. # debugfs -w /dev/hdb11 debugfs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) debugfs: modify_inode <14> Mode [0100664] User ID [0] Group ID [0] Size [49152] Creation time [1104919475] Modification time [1104911138] Access time [1104911138] Deletion time [0] Link count [1] Block count [40] 72 File flags [0x0] Generation [0xbd79555e] File acl [0] High 32bits of size [0] Fragment address [0] Fragment number [0] Fragment size [0] Direct Block #0 [1573380] Direct Block #1 [1573381] Direct Block #2 [1573382] Direct Block #3 [1573383] Direct Block #4 [1662535] Direct Block #5 [0] 1573380 Direct Block #6 [0] 1573381 Direct Block #7 [0] 1573382 Direct Block #8 [0] 1573383 Direct Block #9 [0] Direct Block #10 [0] Direct Block #11 [0] Indirect Block [0] Double Indirect Block [0] Triple Indirect Block [0] debugfs: close debugfs: quit ## Here's the first scan after I forced in the error. ## Notice it does realize that it ran out of space when ## attempting to clone the duplicate blocks. # e2fsck -f /dev/hdb11 e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Duplicate blocks found... invoking duplicate block passes. Pass 1B: Rescan for duplicate/bad blocks Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 14: 1573380 1573381 1573382 1573383 1573380 1573381 1573382 1573383 Pass 1C: Scan directories for inodes with dup blocks. Pass 1D: Reconciling duplicate blocks (There are 1 inodes containing duplicate/bad blocks.) File /test/zero512 (inode #14, mod time Wed Jan 5 01:45:38 2005) has 8 duplicate block(s), shared with 0 file(s): Clone duplicate/bad blocks<y>? yes clone_file: Could not allocate block in ext2 filesystem returned from clone_file_block Couldn't clone file: Could not allocate block in ext2 filesystem Delete file<y>? no Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Free blocks count wrong for group #51 (3, counted=0). Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong (3, counted=0). Fix<y>? yes /test: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** /test: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** /test: 45/1048576 files (42.2% non-contiguous), 2094112/2094112 blocks ## Here's the second pass, just to check and see what the ## first pass did and did not fix. Notice it successfully ## cloned 3 of the 4 duplicate blocks. # e2fsck -f /dev/hdb11 e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Duplicate blocks found... invoking duplicate block passes. Pass 1B: Rescan for duplicate/bad blocks Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 14: 1573383 1573383 Pass 1C: Scan directories for inodes with dup blocks. Pass 1D: Reconciling duplicate blocks (There are 1 inodes containing duplicate/bad blocks.) File /test/zero512 (inode #14, mod time Wed Jan 5 01:45:38 2005) has 2 duplicate block(s), shared with 0 file(s): Clone duplicate/bad blocks<y>? yes clone_file: Could not allocate block in ext2 filesystem returned from clone_file_block Couldn't clone file: Could not allocate block in ext2 filesystem Delete file<y>? no Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /test: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** /test: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** /test: 45/1048576 files (42.2% non-contiguous), 2094112/2094112 blocks _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users