Re: lvm2 and e2fsck

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/22/2009 08:38 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > # mount -v -t ext4 /dev/main_huge_vg/main_huge_lv /data/big
> >
> > $ dmesg | tail -n2
> > EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0 not in group 
> > (block 3120627712)!
> > EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
> >
> >
> > Can I just do this?
> > # e2fsck /dev/main_huge_vg/main_huge_lv
>
> You know the usual rules about fsck'ing a mounted file system?

Yup...

> ext4 reduces to ext3, or even ext2 as long as you haven't use extents 
> (and the journal's reasonably clean).

Yep.

> So yes.

That's what I thought.

> Haven't they added ext4 to the fsprogs?  Is there not a fsck.ext4?

Hmmm...

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org/msg04690.html

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