Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:11:44 -0500 | | Subject | Re: ext2_free_blocks (fwd) | | From | tytso@mit ... |
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 05:29:21 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 tytso@MIT.EDU wrote:
>[..] Since fsck -f didn't find any problems, it was probably your >hardware hiccuping and returning the wrong block when ext2 tried to read >in an indirect block. [..]
The corrupted metadata block is been freed before fsck had a chance to run and once the metadata block become an unused block all returned fine.
How do you know that? It's a plausible scenario, but only if someone deleted the file containing the bad indrect block before running fsck.
- Ted
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