Hi Ted, I was looking into fixing the problem with resize2fs overflowing s_inodes_count with e2fsck. The problem there is that e2fsck does not even open the filesystem as ext2fs_open2() finds s_inodes_count is corrupted and aborts. That seems like a fundamental problem with e2fsck using ext2fs_open2() so it is not able to fix corruptions in superblock. Usually this can be resolved by resorting to a backup superblock but with this resize2fs problem, backup superblocks are buggy in the same way so there's no way to fix the filesystem besides binary poking bytes into it (even debugfs won't work). So what should we do? 1) Just live with the fact that such corruptions are not easily fixable. 2) Add a flag to ext2fs_open() to check only a bare minimum in the superblock so that e2fsck can start working and fixup the superblock. 3) Something else I'm missing. What do you think? Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
