Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2 | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:51:24 -0600 (MDT) |
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Daniel writes: > > > On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:59, Tony Gale wrote: > > > > The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how to > > > > deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. This makes > > > > it rather difficult to use, especially for your root fs. > > Sure, if your root partition is expendable, by all means go ahead. Ted has > already offered to start the required changes to e2fsck, which reminds me, I > have to send the promised docs. For now, just use normal fsck and it will > (in theory) turn the directory indexes back into normal file blocks, and have > no effect on inodes.
This is only true without the COMPAT_DIR_INDEX flag. Since e2fsck _needs_ to know about every filesystem feature, it will (correctly) refuse to touch such a system for now. You could "tune2fs -O ^FEATURE_C4 /dev/hdX" to turn of the COMPAT_DIR_INDEX flag and let e2fsck go to town. That will break all of the directory indexes, I believe.
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