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SubjectRe: corrupt ext3 that even debugfs refuses to repair
On May 22, 2003  15:26 +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> I just found out that my CVS ext3 file system is corrupted.
> The symptom is that du complains about "file not found", i.e. getdents64
> returns the files but stat says they aren't there.
>
> e2fsck finds nothing wrong with the filesystem.
>
> I isolated the files into one directory which I moved to /broken. This
> is what debugfs says:
>
> # debugfs -w /dev/discs/disc0/part5
> debugfs 1.33 (21-Apr-2003)
> debugfs: cd /broken
> debugfs: ls
> 6243596 (12) . 2 (4084) .. 0 (4096) nsISO88592ToUnicode.cpp
> 0 (4096) nsKOI8UToUnicode.o 0 (4096) nsUnicodeToMacDevanagari.h
> 0 (4096) nsUnicodeToZapfDingbat.h 0 (620) nsCP1258ToUnicode.h
> 6243907 (3476) .cvsignore 0 (4096) nsMacUkrainianToUnicode.cpp
> debugfs: rm foo
> rm: File not found by ext2_lookup while trying to resolve filename
> debugfs: ls
> ls: invalid option -- o
> zsh: 5846 segmentation fault debugfs -w /dev/discs/disc0/part5
>
>
> Huh? debugfs does not appear to be a very stable tool ;)

Patches are welcome, since you are probably the only person with a
filesystem corrupted in exactly the right way... At least run "e2image"
on this partition before throwing it away...

> Once again, with nsCP1258ToUnicode.h this time:
>
> debugfs: rm nsCP1258ToUnicode.h
> rm: File not found by ext2_lookup while trying to resolve filename
> debugfs: unlink nsCP1258ToUnicode.h
> unlink_file_by_name: No free space in the directory

These files are already deleted according to the debugfs output above
(ino == 0 means they are deleted). Only "." and ".cvsignore" have
valid inode numbers.

> What can I do now (besides backup and restore, obviously)

It is possible that these inodes are in lost+found, but that is only
a guess.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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