Re: EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted!

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On 02/25/2009 06:05 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
On Feb 25, 2009  17:42 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/25/2009 05:18 PM, Theodore Tso wrote:
Now let's take a look at your dumpe2fs output.  In your case, we see
the following:

Filesystem created:       Thu Jan 22 19:33:20 2009
Last mount time:          Fri Jan 23 16:23:58 2009
Last write time:          Sun Feb 22 02:31:02 2009
Mount count:              1
Maximum mount count:      24
Last checked:             Fri Jan 23 16:19:49 2009
Check interval:           15552000 (6 months)
Next check after:         Wed Jul 22 17:19:49 2009

and it's the same on both the primary and backup (dumpe2fs -o
superblock=32768).  The question is how the heck did *that* happen?
As I mentioned, the kernel doesn't even have code to touch the backup
superblock.

Except online resizing?  It HAS to update the backup superblocks,
otherwise if the primary gets corrupted the backup will not have
the right total blocks count and anything beyond the old blocks
count might be lost...

Does that the "last write" timestamp suggest anything to you?  What
was happening on the system at or around Sun Feb 22 02:31:02 2009?
Maybe if we can localize this down to what userspace program caused
the problem, it'll be a hint.
That's about 10 hours before I rebooted the machine, middle of a Saturday night...

Please take time zones into account also.

I performed a rather large apt-get upgrade at around 01:30, but that would have only touched /, not my "big data" directory. ~/Documents is symlinked into /data/big/Documents, so I might have been editing an OOo document, or copying a YouTube file to it, but nothing pops into mind.

This might have happened AFTER your reboot, by e2fsck or similar?

Since I'm at -0600, that would have been Sat Feb 21 20:31:02 2009 CST, and I'd have been watching TV, or some such. *Maybe* dumping a movie to disk from DVD with mplayer.

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