Hi all, For the background: i've hit defect sectors (on part of md array), and i want to rewrite those sectors to force hdd reallocation, so i need to figure out what they are used for. Unrolling the layers under fs, i'm interested in a 4K blocks range that starts at 2035, here starts the trouble: debugfs 1.43.9 (8-Feb-2018) debugfs: testb 2035 Block 2035 marked in use debugfs: icheck 2035 Block Inode number 2035 <block not found> >From this result, i tried to figure out if this block were used for fs internal structures. Using dumpe2fs, i see that this block belongs to group 0, and falls beyond fs structures (last block for inode table is reported as 1568). Block 2035 is not reported as free blocks. Running forced (fs was marked clean) RO check with e2fsck (on mounted filesystem) did not report block 2035 in block bitmap differences. Oh, and yes, unmounting the filesystem would be a costy operation, so better if avoided (that's why i ran e2fsck RO, and only looked for results about the block of interest). So, how can i know how this (these, actually) block is used? Regards. PS: I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me.
