Hello, I've noticed fs curruption after using fsck.ext4 -D ## uname -a Linux dom 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 20:38:18 CEST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux # mkfs.ext4 -q -L tmp2 -i 2048 -m 2 /dev/sdb11 # mount /dev/sdb11 /mnt/gentoo/ # rsync -aX / /mnt/gentoo/ # umount /mnt/gentoo # LANGUAGE="en_US" fsck.ext4 -f /dev/sdb11 e2fsck 1.41.8 (11-July-2009) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information tmp2: 216739/3909120 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 1335716/1953897 blocks Everything is OK until next: # LANGUAGE="en_US" fsck.ext4 -f -D /dev/sdb11 e2fsck 1.41.8 (11-July-2009) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 3A: Optimizing directories Failed to optimize directory /usr/share/man/man3 (96019): Extent not found Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Free blocks count wrong for group #0 (4, counted=3). Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #2 (5, counted=3). Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #4 (4, counted=3). Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #9 (6, counted=5). Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #11 (15, counted=13). Fix<y>? yes Free blocks count wrong (618219, counted=618212). Fix<y>? yes tmp2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** tmp2: 216739/3909120 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 1335685/1953897 blocks Fsck can't fix fs now (even run many times): # LANGUAGE="en_US" fsck.ext4 -fy /dev/sdb11 e2fsck 1.41.8 (11-July-2009) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes HTREE directory inode 43092 has an invalid root node. Clear HTree index? yes HTREE directory inode 89999 has an invalid root node. Clear HTree index? yes Inode 96019, i_size is 208896, should be 225280. Fix? yes Inode 96019, i_blocks is 496, should be 416. Fix? yes HTREE directory inode 260626 has an invalid root node. Clear HTree index? yes HTREE directory inode 260630 has an invalid root node. Clear HTree index? yes HTREE directory inode 293397 has an invalid root node. Clear HTree index? yes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Problem in HTREE directory inode 96019: node (51) not referenced Problem in HTREE directory inode 96019: node (52) not referenced Problem in HTREE directory inode 96019: node (53) not referenced Problem in HTREE directory inode 96019: node (54) not referenced Invalid HTREE directory inode 96019 (/usr/share/man/man3). Clear HTree index? yes Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity '..' in .../python2.6/test (43092) is <The NULL inode> (0), should be .../python2.6 (260836). Fix? yes Couldn't fix parent of inode 43092: Couldn't find parent directory entry '..' in /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-1.9.1.2/unstable (89999) is <The NULL inode> (0), should be /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-1.9.1.2 (89997). Fix? yes Couldn't fix parent of inode 89999: Couldn't find parent directory entry '..' in /usr/bin (260626) is <The NULL inode> (0), should be /usr (260610). Fix? yes Couldn't fix parent of inode 260626: Couldn't find parent directory entry '..' in /usr/lib64 (260630) is <The NULL inode> (0), should be /usr (260610). Fix? yes Couldn't fix parent of inode 260630: Couldn't find parent directory entry '..' in .../mozilla-thunderbird/idl (293397) is <The NULL inode> (0), should be .../mozilla-thunderbird (260823). Fix? yes Couldn't fix parent of inode 293397: Couldn't find parent directory entry Pass 3A: Optimizing directories Pass 4: Checking reference counts Inode 43092 ref count is 3, should be 2. Fix? yes Inode 89997 ref count is 4, should be 3. Fix? yes Inode 89999 ref count is 2, should be 1. Fix? yes Inode 260610 ref count is 14, should be 12. Fix? yes Inode 260626 ref count is 2, should be 1. Fix? yes Inode 260630 ref count is 73, should be 72. Fix? yes Inode 260823 ref count is 16, should be 15. Fix? yes Inode 260836 ref count is 23, should be 22. Fix? yes Inode 293397 ref count is 2, should be 1. Fix? yes Pass 5: Checking group summary information Block bitmap differences: -15480 -15484 -43618 -70438 -158694 -180514 -180585 Fix? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #0 (3, counted=5). Fix? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #2 (3, counted=4). Fix? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #4 (3, counted=4). Fix? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #9 (5, counted=6). Fix? yes Free blocks count wrong for group #11 (13, counted=15). Fix? yes Free blocks count wrong (618212, counted=618219). Fix? yes tmp2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** tmp2: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** tmp2: 216739/3909120 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 1335678/1953897 blocks May i do something more to help You fix this problem? With regards Marcin Miroslaw -- 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