All, I supported Ralf on the phone and we analyzed, that the ext2 filesystem was already *very* messy before e2fsadm could be run. Brief history was: - fs run as ext3 (heavily) used for weeks - try to shrink unmounted fs with e2fsadm (using resize2fs) made e2fsadm end early because manual fsck was required; this was the point in time where a readonly mount and a backup was needed (but didn't happen) in order to save as much data as possible - manual "fsck -fy" was run exposing piles of messages :-( which convinces me, that the fs data was messy already afterwards - e2fsadm was run "successfully" ending up with smaller fs and larger LV size which is most likely caused by a resize2fs exit code != 0. As already mentioned in other mails of this thread: no backups :-( "Remind people of taking backup, remind people of taking backup, remind..." Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:47:40AM +0200, Bas wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2002 18:22 +0100, Joe Thornber wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 07:14:05PM +0200, Ralf Zerres wrote: > > > > no, i guess not. > > > > I was using e2fsadm which is serializing the steps. As far as I know > ... > > > > > > Yes e2fsadm should have resized the filesystem itself, so that's not > > > the problem. > > > > Unless e2fsadm doesn't work properly with "- 4,5G"... > > > > Out of curiosity, which resizer did e2fsadm use? resize2fs or > > ext2resize? By default it would have picked resize2fs if it is > > installed. > > > > I don't suppose you recall (or better, have saved) any of the output > > >from e2fsadm, resize2fs, e2fsck, anything? > > > > Cheers, Andreas > > -- > > Andreas Dilger > > Is it possible to extend the lv to the original size and run fsck on it ? > Make a tarball of the available data in advance ! > > Good luck, > Bas. > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
