Re: Structure needs cleaning / Directory block does not have space for checksum

[Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>]

Hi Arno,
* Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> [2024-12-11; 12:59 +01]:
> Am 11.12.2024 um 12:01 schrieb Gregor Zattler:
>>> Or where to ask?   The ext3-users
>>> mailing list does not exist any more?
>
> Linux kernel mailing lists might help, at least to ask where to find the
> ext family developers.

thanks, will do.
[...]
> What I would do is the following.
>
> 1. Find storage to store a full dump of the file system (or, actually,
> its underlying block storage). Create such a dump, because it's quite
> likely that further problems arise. Dump in this context means dd, not
> the file system dump tool.

Too expensive...

> 2. Familiarize yourself with ext file system options and debugfs tool.
> Eventually, see if you can access the file system without any features
> that would add extra storage capacity or inode needs. Like without
> journal, without checksumming, without any redundancy and in particular
> read only.

The man page ext4 (5) does not show any
way to mount without checksumming (if
enabled as a feature).



I probably will throw away the backup.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Ciao; Gregor
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