Hi Ted, Since the moment when fsck has been restarted yesterday (under screen) it found only a few errors: ----------------------------- root@rescue ~ # fsck -y -v /dev/sda3 fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) /dev/sda3 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Inode 4425472 is too big. Truncate? yes Block #593549637 (1359559318) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549638 (782521882) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549639 (1184464312) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549640 (1283655900) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549641 (2241107660) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549642 (117581257) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549643 (957560556) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549644 (1037291178) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549645 (2099220496) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549646 (539062498) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Block #593549647 (96880969) causes file to be too big. CLEARED. Too many illegal blocks in inode 4425472. Clear inode? yes Inode 4425549, i_size is 18119674890280087280, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425549, i_blocks is 27717127168711, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425554 has compression flag set on filesystem without compression support. Clear? yes Inode 4425554, i_size is 12927291416082045099, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425554, i_blocks is 207957728820169, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425667, i_size is 3071282098034816027, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425667, i_blocks is 225290567745721, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425603 has INDEX_FL flag set but is not a directory. Clear HTree index? yes Inode 4425603, i_size is 13931552572174262662, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425603, i_blocks is 109288676305237, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425281 has INDEX_FL flag set but is not a directory. Clear HTree index? yes Inode 4425281, i_size is 16737347569809842710, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425281, i_blocks is 231725314734850, should be 0. Fix? yes Inode 4425553 is too big. Truncate? yes Block #1 (1012277717) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #2 (2730874111) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #3 (2924388706) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #4 (739968058) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #5 (2349486480) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #6 (184918148) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #7 (3200511249) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #8 (4199384552) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #9 (2310276563) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #10 (960264107) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Block #11 (3387206892) causes symlink to be too big. CLEARED. Too many illegal blocks in inode 4425553. Clear inode? yes ----------------------------- dumpe2fs "hangs" after dumping superblock info (no group info is shown): ----------------------------- root@rescue ~ # dumpe2fs /dev/sda3 dumpe2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: / Filesystem UUID: 552052d1-9e25-4b2b-bc04-21c7b4a87aa4 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr dir_index filetype extent 64bit flex_bg sparse_super huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: user_xattr acl Filesystem state: not clean with errors Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 793231360 Block count: 12691701243 Reserved block count: 634585062 Free blocks: 12641158920 Free inodes: 793231369 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 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Thu Feb 12 16:57:47 2015 Last mount time: Thu Aug 27 10:58:45 2015 Last write time: Thu Aug 27 10:58:58 2015 Mount count: 4 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Thu Feb 12 16:57:47 2015 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 279 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: 9ddd8b55-ff3f-4447-bf5c-732402ddd8d6 Journal backup: inode blocks FS Error count: 154 First error time: Thu Aug 13 17:25:45 2015 First error function: ext4_mb_generate_buddy First error line #: 739 First error inode #: 0 First error block #: 0 Last error time: Fri Aug 14 16:48:41 2015 Last error function: ext4_mb_generate_buddy Last error line #: 739 Last error inode #: 0 Last error block #: 0 Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke journal_64bit Journal size: 128M Journal length: 32768 Journal sequence: 0x00321045 Journal start: 0 ^C ----------------------------- /boot partition which sits on /dev/sda2 is shown perfectly by dumpe2fs Regards, Alexander On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:23:58PM +0300, Alexander Afonyashin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've restarted fsck ~6 hours ago. It's again occupied ~30GB RAM and >> strace shows that number of syscalls per second becomes fewer and >> fewer. > > Can you run it under "script" so we can get a transcript of the run? > > It sounds like your file system has gotten very badly damaged, so the > question is figuring out what happened so we can advise you about how > to recover. > > Can you also send the output of dumpe2fs? > > Thanks, > > - 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