On May 05, 2009 16:44 +0200, Marcel Partap wrote: > > You did not take the dd image before the first e2fsck, hm? > Well backing up files before trashing them is sooo unadventurous aint it. > e2fsck really needs the ability to write all actions to an undo log file. > By default. Hmmpf. There is a feature in newer e2fsprogs that does create an undo log for e2fsck, but the performance isn't necessarily great. I don't know how bad it gets, but maybe for the majority of people this would be an acceptable alternative to the risk of major filesystem errors. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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