On Fri 2014-07-04 14:56:26, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 07:21:04PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Is it possible that my fsck is so old it does not clear this "filesystem > > had error in past" flag? Because I strongly suspect I'll boot into > > init=/bin/bash, run fsck, it will tell me "all clean", and the messages > > will repeat in the middle of fsck run. > > Yes, that's what's going on. E2fsprogs v1.41.12 does not have the > code to clear those fields in the superblock; that code was added in > v1.41.13. > > (There have also been a ****huge**** number of bug fixes since May > 2010, which is when 1.41.12 was released, so I'd strongly suggest that > you upgrade to a newer version of e2fsprogs. In particular DON'T try > resizing an an ext4 file system, either on-line or off-line with a > version of e2fsprogs that ancient; there is a very good chance you > will badly corrupt the file system.) Ok, I have compiled fsck from git, it calls itself 1.43-WIP (18-May-2014). If I run it on my /dev/sda3, it still calls it clean and quits (even through it should still have the "filesystem had error in past" flag). I ran it -f, and it said all clean. Did not mention modifying the filesystem. Now I'm running fsck.new -cf. I don't think this filesystem has any bad blocks. Still, it says "rootfs: Updating bad block inode." ... "FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED", "REBOOT LINUX". While looking at e2fsck sources: sprintf(buf, "badblocks -b %d -X %s%s%s %llu", fs->blocksize, (ctx->options & E2F_OPT_PREEN) ? "" : "-s ", (ctx->options & E2F_OPT_WRITECHECK) ? "-n " : "", fs->device_name, ext2fs_blocks_count(fs->super)-1); f = popen(buf, "r"); ...is it really good idea? I think it will do the bad thing in (crazy) setup such as this, or in any setup with space in filename: root@duo:/dev# ls -al | grep echo brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Jul 6 14:56 `echo ownered` root@duo:/dev# /usr/local/bin/ e2fsck.new unrar2 root@duo:/dev# /usr/local/bin/e2fsck.new '`echo ownered`' e2fsck 1.43-WIP (18-May-2014) `echo ownered` is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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