ext4 resize/fsck

Curtis Doty Curtis at GreenKey.net
Wed Feb 4 03:38:27 UTC 2009


9:09pm Eric Sandeen said:

> Curtis Doty wrote:
>> Horsing around with ext4 again...on F-10.
>>
>> This time a fsck was required after both an offline shrink and an online
>> grow. Why?
>
> Could you please try again with 1.41.4 from rawhide (or koji:
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/e2fsprogs/1.41.4/2.fc11/ -
> might need to rebuild if there are any library dependency problems) and
> see if this persists or is fixed?  Several resize fixes went into 1.41.4
> that should take care of this.
>
> I'll probably push 1.41.4 to f10 testing soon, if people are hitting
> these problems.
>

Is this an improvement or luck? Fewer issues, but still a ghost dir.

19:30]stratus~# lvextend -L6G foo/bar
   Extending logical volume bar to 6.00 GB
   Logical volume bar successfully resized

19:31]stratus~# resize2fs -p /dev/foo/bar
resize2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
Filesystem at /dev/foo/bar is mounted on /home; on-line resizing required
old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/foo/bar to 1572864 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on /dev/foo/bar is now 1572864 blocks long.

19:31]stratus~# umount /home
19:32]stratus~# fsck.ext4 -C0 -f /dev/foo/bar
e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Directories count wrong for group #37 (1, counted=0).
Fix<y>? yes

bar: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
bar: 43188/153600 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 294524/1572864 blocks

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