Hi, FYI: I've spotted a report about an e2fsck exiting with SIGFPE on a damaged (by a power loss) ext3 fs. e2image works (though I'm not sure the image is still available), e2image -r aborts with FPE. dumpe2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) - Gentoo. Filesystem volume name: d!ne4 Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 71ab8e2a-8f1a-4189-a09d-fc27eca31c97 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: journal_data_ordered bsdgroups user_xattr acl Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Remount read-only Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 9928704 Block count: 19825891 Reserved block count: 0 Free blocks: 3151047 Free inodes: 9911645 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 1024 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 0 Inode blocks per group: 0 Filesystem created: Fri Oct 27 03:08:12 1972 Last mount time: Mon Dec 15 09:52:11 2008 Last write time: Mon Dec 15 14:37:05 2008 Mount count: 9 Maximum mount count: 35 Last checked: Wed Dec 10 10:20:51 2008 Check interval: 2592000 (1 month) Next check after: Fri Jan 9 10:20:51 2009 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: 5aad87aa-32bd-4603-8901-2c8bdf020e5e Journal backup: inode blocks (SIGFPE) strace log (tail only): write(1, "Reserved blocks gid: 0 (grou"..., 41) = 41 write(1, "First inode: 11\n"..., 29) = 29 write(1, "Inode size:\t 128\n"..., 26) = 26 write(1, "Journal inode: 8\n"..., 28) = 28 write(1, "Default directory hash: tea\n"..., 30) = 30 write(1, "Directory Hash Seed: 5aad87a"..., 63) = 63 write(1, "Journal backup: inode b"..., 39) = 39 --- SIGFPE (Floating point exception) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGFPE +++ # e2fsck -n -v /dev/sdb1 e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Floating point exception If required I can contact the person in question and ask for more info. Please Cc: me if needed, I'm not subscribed to linux-ext4. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html