e2fsck: aborted

Morty morty+redhat at frakir.org
Fri Apr 2 22:08:59 UTC 2010


I've got an FS at $WORK that's giving a whole lot of fsck errors.  It
starts like so:

fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
archive contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes

Running additional passes to resolve blocks claimed by more than one
inode...
Pass 1B: Rescanning for multiply-claimed blocks
Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 163841: 101019648
Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 163842: 101019649 101019650
101019651 101019652 101019653 101019654 101019655
Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 163843: 101019656 101019657
101019658 101019659 101019660 101019661 101019662 101019663 101019664
101019665 101019666 101019667 101019668 101019669 101019670 101019671
101019672 101019673 101019674 101019675 101019676 101019677 101019678
101019679 101019680 101019681 101019682 101019683 101019684 101019685
101019686 101019687 101019688 101019689 101019690 101019691 101019692
101019693 101019694 101019695 101019696 101019697 101019698 101019699
101019700 101019701 101019702 101019703 101019704 101019705 101019706
101019707 101019708 101019709 101019710 101019711 101019712 101019713
101019714 101019715 101019716 101019717 101019718 101019719 101019720
101019721 101019722 101019723 101019724 101019725 101019726 101019727
101019728 101019729 101019730 101019731 101019732 101019733 101019734
101019735 101019736 101019737 101019738 101019739 101019740 101019741
101019742 101019743 101019744 101019745 101019746
[snip]

After a while of this, I get the following error:

e2fsck: Can't allocate block element
e2fsck: aborted

Google says the error relates to process memory size required for
large FSs.  The FS here is a 1TB FS, created before I started using
largefile and largefile4 for large FSs.  When I mount it, some data
seems to be lost.  Anything I can do other than recover from backup?

- Morty




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