On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 04:05:04PM -0400, Akos Csete wrote: > > Could I then just wipe the inodes of the older files (and restore them > later from backup) and let the new file claim those blocks? Or are the > new file's claim to those blocks suspect? OK, if the mod times are different, then it probably wasn't a case of an inode getting written to the wrong place on disk. What probably did happen is the block allocation bitmaps got corrupted, and so blocks that were in use (and should have been marked in use) were not, so they got used for some other inode. So yes, you can try wiping the inodes for the older files, and hope for the best, but it may be that some of the newer files may end up getting corrupted. So you might want to do some spot checks afterwards. And if you have backups, this might be a good time to consider going to your backup tapes.... - Ted -- 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
