On Aug 20, 2012, at 23.02.45, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, you should definitely get a newer version of e2fsprogs. The > latest version is 1.42.5. Done. > As to whether you'll need to recreate the filesystem, I'll need to see > the output of dumpe2fs -h. It may be that file system was created in > sufficiently poor configuration that it would be highly advisable that > you recreate the file system. Thanks for the reply. Below, as requested, the output from dumpe2fs and the mke2fs.conf file (Ubuntu 12.04). I look forward to hearing that my file system isn't in a state of "sufficiently poor configuration"; however, since I originally posted my question I've managed to secure a means to duplicate the data so that I can recreate the file system (if necessary). Thanks a lot for your help. dumpe2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: /media/Bigger Filesystem UUID: baecfa03-74c1-42ad-8e19-3b823f05f502 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr dir_index filetype extent 64bit flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: user_xattr acl Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 274700288 Block count: 4395202560 Reserved block count: 219760128 Free blocks: 247712956 Free inodes: 274636266 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 2048 Inode blocks per group: 128 RAID stride: 128 RAID stripe width: 768 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Fri Aug 17 02:54:50 2012 Last mount time: Mon Aug 20 02:21:51 2012 Last write time: Mon Aug 20 12:28:57 2012 Mount count: 0 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Mon Aug 20 12:28:57 2012 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 16 TB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: b357ba49-60b1-4c55-837f-a70c8285a8f5 Journal backup: inode blocks Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke journal_64bit Journal size: 128M Journal length: 32768 Journal sequence: 0x00009b36 Journal start: 0 [defaults] base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr default_mntopts = acl,user_xattr enable_periodic_fsck = 0 blocksize = 4096 inode_size = 256 inode_ratio = 16384 [fs_types] ext3 = { features = has_journal } ext4 = { features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize auto_64-bit_support = 1 inode_size = 256 } ext4dev = { features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize inode_size = 256 options = test_fs=1 } small = { blocksize = 1024 inode_size = 128 inode_ratio = 4096 } floppy = { blocksize = 1024 inode_size = 128 inode_ratio = 8192 } big = { inode_ratio = 32768 } huge = { inode_ratio = 65536 } news = { inode_ratio = 4096 } largefile = { inode_ratio = 1048576 blocksize = -1 } largefile4 = { inode_ratio = 4194304 blocksize = -1 } hurd = { blocksize = 4096 inode_size = 128 } -- Curtis Jones -- 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