On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:56:34PM +0930, Kevin Shanahan wrote: > And following the same formula as last time(s): > > hermes:~# debugfs /dev/dm-0 > debugfs: stat "local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.IF" > invalid inode->i_extra_isize (8224) > Inode: 2542 Type: bad type Mode: 0043 Flags: 0x5849462f > Generation: 538970637 Version: 0x66663030:535f4445 > User: 538980401 Group: 538993001 Size: 996566576 > File ACL: 538976288 Directory ACL: 0 > Links: 8812 Blockcount: 35322822674750 > Fragment: Address: 538976288 Number: 0 Size: 0 > ctime: 0x41462d54:65636166 -- Tue Sep 14 08:59:24 2004 > atime: 0x4e4f4620:63206c61 -- Sat Aug 20 14:59:04 2011 > mtime: 0x594c494d:6972413d -- Fri Jun 23 08:18:45 2017 > crtime: 0x726f6c6f:3138233d -- Sun Nov 3 13:24:39 2030 > dtime: 0x7241203a -- Sun Sep 29 09:35:14 2030 > Size of extra inode fields: 8224 > BLOCKS: > > debugfs: imap "local/apps/OLD-APPS/APPS/NWAPPS/OAIII/OATEMP/F_CLPROF.IF" > Inode 2542 is part of block group 0 > located at block 447, offset 0x0d00 > > hermes:~# dd if=/dev/dm-0 of=block-447.dump bs=4k skip=447 count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 4096 bytes (4.1 kB) copied, 0.0121164 s, 338 kB/s > > Now, this is (possibly) interesting - that block contains a bunch of > file data. Looks like a html email (I can tell it's email because of > the FIXED_ prefix added to the tags by the mail sanitizer). > > If I can locate the source of that data, perhaps it will point to > where the corruption is coming from? Any tips on scanning for the > data? I'll start with simple find and grep and see how far I get. I didn't find this in any file in the current directory structure. I guess it could be old data that hadn't been zeroed out. However, the only binary data I can see seems to be at offset 0x0155 (341), nowhere near offset 0x0d00 (unless I misunderstand the imap output above. Does that little blob of binary data make any sense as an inode? Cheers, Kevin. -- 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