On Apr 09, 2005 16:07 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote: > I thought removing the journal might help. I doubt that the files that > interest me were open at the time. Sounds like the journal has some of the blocks set to zero (i.e. sparse), which is an error, or you are actually getting read errors in the journal. > [root@marvin root]# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdb1 > tune2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) > The needs_recovery flag is set. Please run e2fsck before clearing > the has_journal flag. 'debugfs -R "feature needs_recovery" /dev/hdb1' is what you want. That should probably be put into the tune2fs man page. After this you should probably run badblocks before recreating the journal. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
