On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote:
To: Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Inode 196617 has imagic flag set
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 10:10:38PM +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
This is stopping my new Centos 5.5 installation from booting.
I have dropped into maintainance mode and run e2fsck without getting
any errors. I used the -c option, and no bad blocks were found.
That error "Inode ... has imagic flag set" is an e2fsck error. Do you
have more than one file system on your system? Maybe you checked the
one file system, and the error was on another file system.
Absolutely spon on Ted!
I did have a USB stick plugged in, to boot my Kickstart file
from. I also added another partition to the USB drive, also
with a partition label called 'websites'. So I could upload
my websites to my hosting provider from my laptop.
Maybe e2fsck was getting confused at having two partitions
with the same partition label on the system?
So I renamed the partition on my USB drive, to my-websites.
+++
I have found it now Ted.
I'm on my laptop, and have run e2fskck on the USB drive.
Here is the output:
[root@karsites ~]# e2label /dev/sdb2
my-websites
[root@karsites ~]# e2fsck -vf -Cd /dev/sdb2
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Deleted inode 196610 has zero dtime. Fix<y>? no
Inode 196617 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>? no
Inode 196617 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>? no
Inode 196618 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>? no
Inode 196618 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>? no
Inode 196619 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>? no
Inode 196619 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>? no
Inode 196620 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>? no
Inode 196620 has imagic flag set. Clear<y>?
So it looks like e2fsck was checking the USB drive at
bootup, and because it inadvertently had the same partition
lable name, 'websites'.
I thought it was my main HDD I was installing Centos onto
that had the errors.
Whew!
That's cool, because this is a brand new 500GB hard drive.
I shall make sure in future, that there are no conflicts
with my partition label names - especially with removable
devices like USB drives.
Thanks for all the help.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
PS Are there any PDF docs that would give me an overview of
the ext3 FS, and how it works?
That error very often means that part of your inode table has gotten
corrupted, since that flag should never get set during normal
operation. (It was implemented for AFS file servers.)
- Ted
--
In theory, theory and practice are the same;
in practice they are not.
This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5
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