Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Hi, > > I am running 2.6.31-rc8+ and have ext4 corruption that will not go away. > > My root fs is ext4 on sdb3. I have moved the directory with corruption into lost+found and booted to a rescuse > system (arch linux) and run fsck.ext4 on the filesystem, which then reports its clean... Booting back into my > gentoo system and attempting to remove the xx directory from lost+found gives: > > [ 172.408799] EXT4-fs error (device sdb3): ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode #706801: invalid magic - magic 0, entries 0, max 0(0), depth 0(0) > [ 172.429410] EXT4-fs error (device sdb3): ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode #706801: invalid magic - magic 0, entries 0, max 0(0), depth 0(0) > [ 172.449920] EXT4-fs error (device sdb3): ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode #706801: invalid magic - magic 0, entries 0, max 0(0), depth 0(0) > > The above is repeatable. > > How can I _really_ clean this fs? What info is needed to help the process? > > TIA, > Ed Tomlinson > > -- > 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 > > Have you tried "dumpe2fs /dev/sdb3" to determine if you can use a different superblock number, since the problem is recurring? LDB -- 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