Hi Stefan, Back from vacation... On Sun 31-07-22 22:42:56, Stefan Wahren wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Am 28.07.22 um 12:00 schrieb Jan Kara: > > > > Also can get filesystem metadata image of your card like: > > e2image -r <fs-device> - | gzip >/tmp/ext4-image.gz > > > > and put it somewhere for download? The image will contain only fs metadata, > > not data so it should be relatively small and we won't have access to your > > secrets ;). With the image we'd be able to see how the free space looks > > like and whether it perhaps does not trigger some pathological behavior. > i've problems with this. If i try store uncompressed the metadata of the > second SD card partition (/dev/sdb2 = rootfs) the generated image file is > nearly big as the whole partition. In compressed state it's 25 MB. Is this > expected? Yes, that is expected. The resulting file is a sparse file that contains only metadata blocks that is the reason why it compresses so well but looks big. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
