On Wed, Feb 04, Olaf Hering wrote: > Ok, will try that. Thanks. root@linux-fceg:~ # time env -i /sbin/e2fsck -fDvv /dev/mapper/luks-861f1f73-7037-486a-9a8a-8588367fcf33 e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 3A: Optimizing directories Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information BACKUP_OLH_500G: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** 1886589 inodes used (7.20%, out of 26214400) 38925 non-contiguous files (2.1%) 28851 non-contiguous directories (1.5%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 163156/45817/319 344807093 blocks used (82.21%, out of 419430400) 0 bad blocks 8 large files 859307 regular files 1026949 directories 0 character device files 0 block device files 0 fifos 19504583 links 322 symbolic links (316 fast symbolic links) 2 sockets ------------ 21391163 files real 78m31.853s user 3m24.616s sys 1m20.599s root@probook:~ # dumpe2fs -h /dev/dm-5 dumpe2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Filesystem volume name: BACKUP_OLH_500G Last mounted on: /media/BACKUP_OLH_500G Filesystem UUID: f0d41610-a993-4b77-8845-f0f07e37f61d Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file dir_nlink Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 26214400 Block count: 419430400 Reserved block count: 419430 Free blocks: 74623307 Free inodes: 24327811 First block: 1 Block size: 1024 Fragment size: 1024 Reserved GDT blocks: 256 Blocks per group: 8192 Fragments per group: 8192 Inodes per group: 512 Inode blocks per group: 128 Filesystem created: Tue Feb 12 18:24:13 2013 Last mount time: Wed Feb 4 17:02:29 2015 Last write time: Wed Feb 4 17:02:29 2015 Mount count: 1 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Wed Feb 4 15:08:34 2015 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 5039 MB 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: 55aeb7a2-43ca-4104-ad21-56d7a523dc8f Journal backup: inode blocks Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke Journal size: 32M Journal length: 32768 Journal sequence: 0x000a3a58 Journal start: 1 But still: [44220.530001] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3500418AS CC45 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [44220.530455] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB) [44220.530548] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [44220.530557] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [44220.530596] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [44220.534670] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [44220.549014] sdb: sdb1 [44220.549721] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [44238.004550] EXT4-fs (dm-5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [45191.549831] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-5): ext4_dx_add_entry:1990: Directory index full! Guess its time to wipe it and go with something else. Olaf -- 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