I'm not sure what I did. The drive is an "internal" 2 TB drive that I use in a drive dock, only for backups. It had not been checked in a long time and was seriously hosed. That is why I ran fsck with -y: to get to a sane state where I would not damage things further by doing file operations. I wound up with over 100 things in lost+found, almost all empty files and directories.
I have about 8 of these in various sizes. Very handy for off-site backups (keep one in the house of a friend in the next town, rotate, repeat). The systems they run on are on a reliable UPS, but that does not help much when Linux crashes. Since these migrate, they are not automounted and not subject to boot-time fsck scrutiny. I'll have to do something about that. Kevin O'Gorman, Ph.D. mailto:[email protected] Home Page: http://www.kosmanor.com/~kevin ________________________________ From: Dave Gilbert <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, October 1, 2011 3:57:43 PM Subject: [Bug 864344] Re: fsck -y leaves problems behind Well in the 1st run it does warn you that something odd happened: WARNING: PROGRAMMING BUG IN E2FSCK! OR SOME BONEHEAD (YOU) IS CHECKING A MOUNTED (LIVE) FILESYSTEM. inode_link_info[23300069] is 2, inode.i_links_count is 1. They should be the same! Inode 23300069 ref count is 1, should be 1. Fix? yes so I think after that warning all bets are off - and I can see from your df -h that your /dev/sdg1 isn't mounted, so it does look like an e2fsck bug it got to that point. Can I ask what did you do to your fs to get it into this state where the fsck started off with those errors and can you describe the hardware. Dave -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864344 Title: fsck -y leaves problems behind Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Fixing an ext4 file system required multiple passes. This is counter-intuitive in a program that will sometimes say something to the effect that "problems remain" but did not do so this time. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: e2fsprogs 1.41.14-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic-pae 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 1 14:33:30 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: e2fsprogs UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/864344/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864344 Title: fsck -y leaves problems behind To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/864344/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
