On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:47:16AM -0400, Charles Riley wrote: > Hi, > > What does the "expand_dir" command do in debugfs? > All the information I can find on it just says "Expand the directory > filespec" > I googled the archives and can't find a post where someone actually used > it to give me some context. > If I try it in debugfs (image opened ro) it seems to want to write to > the image. It adds an extra (empty) directory block to a directory inode. This something like this is used to recreate a lost+found directory with extra empty directory blocks so that e2fsck can reattach orphaned inodes without needing to allocate blocks from the filesystem (which might not be available if the filesystem is 100% full), for example. It's not normally useful for most debugfs users. (Heck, debugfs wasn't intended to be useful for most ext3 users; it's really designed for ext3 wizards that need to untangle badly corrupted filesystems, and/or ext3/4 developers that are debugging new ext4 code, and/or ext3/4 developers creating deliberately corrupted filesystems for e2fsprogs's regression test suite.) - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
