2.6.22-rc1 killed my ext3 filesystem cleanly unmounted

Martin Mokrejs mmokrejs at ribosome.natur.cuni.cz
Fri May 18 13:51:08 UTC 2007


On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:17:06PM +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:06 +0200, Martin Mokrejs wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I just tried the 2.6.22-r1 candidate to test whether some bug I have 
> > hit in the past still exists. I did use 2.6.20.6 so far. So, I have 
> > cleanly rebooted to use the new kernel, after the machine came up I 
> > tried to mess with the bug, and had to reboot again to play with kernel 
> > commandline parameters. Unfortunately, on the next reboot fsck was 
> > schedules on my filesystem after 38 clean mounts. :( And the problem 
> > started. The fsck found some unused inodes, but probably did not know 
> > where do they belong to, but it deleted them automagically. Finally, the 
> > fsck died because it cannot fine some '..' entry.
> > 
> > /dev/hda3: Entry '..' in .../??? (5701636) has deleted/unused inode
> > 5570561. CLEARED.
> > Unconnected directory inode 5570567 (...)
> > 
> > /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> >                   (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> > 
> 
> This means that e2fsck has reached a point where it needs user
> intervention. So you should not run e2fsck with -p, -a or -y options.
> Look up the e2fsck man page for more on this.

Yeah, stupid init.d script in Gentoo. I will report at Gentoo as well but
how can I revert the changes? Can you say which directories were affected?
Thanks,
Martin




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