e2fsck: aborted

[Christian Kujau]

A bit late, but....

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 at 18:08, Morty wrote:
> 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

How many inodes are on this filesystem? See 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/2/7/95 for some estimates. Maybe adding more 
RAM/switching to 64bit (if not already done) might help.

Christian.
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