On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/9/16 2:29 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2016, at 10:40 PM, Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I have an ext3 filesystem that will not mount under newer versions of >>> the kernel and I hope someone here can help. >>> >>> Obviously, one solution is "backup and re-create from scratch". I have >>> the backups, but I hope that there may be a quicker method to fix the >>> issues. >>> >>> The root issue is that the filesystem is very slightly smaller than >>> the allocated space. > > So the device is now smaller than the filesystem thinks, right? Yes, I got that the wrong way round in my original email. The device is very slightly smaller than the filesystem. Simon -- 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
