Hi Carlos, Thank you for the reply. Today I try to run e2fsck again. This time I'm sure I run it in correct volume. I also try to use different backup suprtblock. The results are as below: e2fsck -fnv /dev/md0 e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) ext2fs_check_desc: Corrupt group descriptor: bad block for block bitmap e2fsck: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... Corruption found in superblock. (reserved_gdt_blocks = 16384). The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> or e2fsck -b 32768 <device> e2fsck -fnv -b 8193 /dev/md0 e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/md0 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> or e2fsck -b 32768 <device> e2fsck -fnv -b 32768 /dev/md0 e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Corruption found in superblock. (reserved_gdt_blocks = 16384). The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> or e2fsck -b 32768 <device> It all complains about superblock corrupted. I then use dumpe2fs to check the superblock and get the following: dumpe2fs -h /dev/md0 dumpe2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: /share/MD0_DATA Filesystem UUID: 6c1f5c4f-7185-436f-bc1f-8876a1d524fe Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr 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: (none) Filesystem state: clean with errors Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 610230272 Block count: 4881811920 Reserved block count: 218453 Free blocks: 1387940253 Free inodes: 610226921 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Group descriptor size: 64 Reserved GDT blocks: 16384 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 4096 Inode blocks per group: 256 RAID stride: 1 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Mon Jan 13 08:40:19 2014 Last mount time: Thu Feb 12 10:34:24 2015 Last write time: Thu Feb 12 10:35:23 2015 Mount count: 50 Maximum mount count: 31 Last checked: Tue Jun 17 07:54:54 2014 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Sun Dec 14 06:54:54 2014 Lifetime writes: 15 TB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user unknown) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group unknown) 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: a9c4f391-d68d-4886-b7cb-5a804077f823 Directory Magic Number: 0x0000 Journal backup: inode blocks FS Error count: 25 First error time: Thu Jan 1 12:19:59 2015 First error function: ext4_ext_find_extent First error line #: 400 First error inode #: 95223833 First error block #: 0 Last error time: Wed Feb 4 11:57:05 2015 Last error function: ext4_ext_find_extent Last error line #: 400 Last error inode #: 95223833 Last error block #: 0 Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke journal_64bit Journal size: 128M Journal length: 32768 Journal sequence: 0x00092ac2 Journal start: 0 I can not see anything wrong (except the error count that was what I already knew). That's why I am really confused about why e2fsck report something like this. Kevin 2015-02-10 17:39 GMT+08:00 Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello, > > I don't work with ext4 for a while, but maybe I can give a few suggestions. > > first of all, I'd suggest you to run `e2fsck -fnv` and attach the whole output > of the command to the e-mail (pastebins are preferred though). > > Giving the description, I'd say that you might be trying to run e2fsck in a > different volume/device that you're actually mounting, but well, that's too soon > to say. > > have you tried to actually run e2fsck specifying a backup superblock? > > cheers > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 07:33:28PM +0800, Kevin Liao wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Recently whenvevr I try to access one file, I saw the following kernel log: >> >> "EXT4-fs error (device md0): ext4_ext_find_extent:400: inode #95223833: comm >> fio: bad header/extent: invalid magic - magic e2b6, entries 59156, max >> 58100(0), depth 43399(0)" >> >> inode 95223833 is just the file I want to read. I guess there may be some >> corruption in the file system. Therefore I umount it and run e2fsck command >> but get the following result: >> >> "ext2fs_check_desc: Corrupt group descriptor: bad block for block bitmap >> ./e2fsck: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... >> Corruption found in superblock. (reserved_gdt_blocks = 16384). >> >> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4 >> filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4 >> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock >> is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: >> e2fsck -b 8193 <device> >> or >> e2fsck -b 32768 <device>" >> >> It seems that the superblock is bad, however I can still mount it and access >> to other files without error. The kernel version is 3.4.23. Is there anything >> I can do to recover the file? Any help is very appreciated. 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