FSCK of corrupted ext3 filesystem

[Damian Menscher]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Per Andreas Buer wrote:

> Darryl Bond <dbond at nrggos.com.au> writes:
>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>  4562 root          25   0  780m   214m  236 R 99.9         42.6
>> 6211:44 fsck.ext3
>
> I looks like fsck.ext3 has eaten all of your memory. Your system is
> probably thrashing. Buy more memory.

No.  Look at the columns again, reformatted properly:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
4562 root      25   0  780m  214m 236 R 99.9 42.6  6211:44  fsck.ext3

My _uninformed_ suggestion would be to kill it and run it again.  It 
might help.  Or not.  At least it's unlikely to make matters worse.

Damian Menscher
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