Re: repaing ext2 filesystems
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:04:55AM -0500, Thedore Knab wrote:
> I got the following error.
>
> Error message:
>
> [root@blitzhost log]# /sbin/dump 0uaf /dev/ht0 /dev/sda1
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Jan 29 00:54:39 2002
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda1 (/mailbag) to /dev/ht0
> DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> DUMP: estimated 19444472 tape blocks.
> DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Tue Jan 29 00:55:25 2002
> DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> /dev/sda1: EXT2 directory corrupted while converting directory #49556
>
> Is there a safer way to repair the ext2 File-system ?
>
> Usually, I would unmount the partition and run.
>
> e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1
I had similar problems. I don't know of a better way to repair
ext2 - I upgraded to ext3 :) The journal has saved me many times
now. I have never had problems with it, yet..
- Adam
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