Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:25:54 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue? |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: > 3. fsck -p on boot failed > > (it is very probable not many files were corrupted at this stage)
Maybe... > > 4. I ran fsck.ext3 -y > > => that corrupted lots and lots of files. This went > into a loop, the fsck.ext3 restarted checking over and over again.
It's possible that e2fsck corrupted the files, but they also could have been corrupted earlier by the earlier I/O errors. There are some relatively rare filesystem corruptions which e2fsck doesn't handle as gracefully as it should, though, I will admit. I would need to see the e2fsck transcript to be sure.
Were there any messages about needing to relocate inode tables by any chance?
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