Hello Ryusuke, I changed the code some to: diff -u --ignore-all-space fsck0.nilfs2.c ~/nilfs/nilfs-utils.git/nilfs2-utils/sbin/fsck --- fsck0.nilfs2.c 2011-06-14 11:03:49.000000000 -0700 +++ /root/nilfs/nilfs-utils.git/nilfs2-utils/sbin/fsck/fsck0.nilfs2.c 2011-06-14 11:01:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -172,10 +172,14 @@ static void read_block(int fd, __u64 blocknr, void *buf, unsigned long size) { + int num_read; if (lseek64(fd, blocknr * blocksize, SEEK_SET) < 0 || - read(fd, buf, size) < size) - die("cannot read block (blocknr = %llu): %s", - (unsigned long long)blocknr, strerror(errno)); + (num_read = read(fd, buf, size) < size)) { + fprintf(stderr, "Read size was: %d\tNum read: %d\tStrerror: %s\n", + size, num_read, strerror(errno)); + die("cannot read block (blocknr = %llu)", + (unsigned long long)blocknr); + } } static inline __u64 segment_start_blocknr(unsigned long segnum) and I got this as output: ./fsck0.nilfs2 -f -v /dev/sda2 Super-block: revision = 2.0 blocksize = 4096 write time = 2011-06-11 23:22:03 indicated log: blocknr = 1648528 segnum = 804, seq = 401758, cno=3250953 Unclean FS. The latest log is lost. Trying rollback recovery.. ...... Searching the latest checkpoint. Read size was: 4096 Num read: 1 Strerror: Success fsck0.nilfs2: cannot read block (blocknr = 2696911) The mount error is: $ mount -t nilfs2 /dev/sda2 /writable Jun 14 10:52:13 _Lab kernel: NILFS warning: mounting unchecked fs Jun 14 10:52:13 _Lab kernel: NILFS warning: Checksum error in segment payload Jun 14 10:52:13 _Lab kernel: NILFS: error searching super root. mount.nilfs2: Error while mounting /dev/sda2 on /writable: Invalid argument Will it still be possible to recover the partition or is this error fatal? Thanks all. Zahid -----Original Message----- From: Ryusuke Konishi [mailto:konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 4:52 PM To: Zahid Chowdhury Cc: dexen.devries@xxxxxxxxx; linux-nilfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: mount & fsck of nilfs partition fail. On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:28:19 -0700, Zahid Chowdhury wrote: > Hello Dexen/Ryusuke, > Thanks both for your help. I tried this: > [quadcore:~/nilfs/nilfs-utils.git/nilfs2-utils] git fetch > http://git.nilfs.org/nilfs2-utils-devel.git fsck0:fsck0 > fatal: Refusing to fetch into current branch > [quadcore:~/nilfs/nilfs-utils.git/nilfs2-utils] git checkout fsck0 > Already on "fsck0" > I also tried from scratch with your commands below (not co, but checkout) - > there were no changes to the file with diff: > nilfs2-utils-devel/sbin/fsck/fsck0.nilfs2.c Sorry, the fsck0 branch was not propery updated. I just fixed the problem in the git repo. Regards, Ryusuke Konishi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html