On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 01:13:49PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 03:42:53PM +0200, Marcin Wolcendorf wrote:
> > > 
> > > Could you try grabbing the strace with this retry-write version of 
> > > resize2fs?
> > 
> 
> Thanks, that found the problem!  The hint was in the strace, a report
> that second write failed with an EFAULT.

:) Happy to help.

> I've pushed out a fix to the e2fsprogs git repository, in the branch
> fix-for-756922.
> 
> Can you give that a try?  Use the e2fsck found in that version to make
> sure the file system is sane, and then use resize2fs to shrink the
> file system.  Hopefully that will fix things.

I tried it, and it worked! :) Impressive job! 
Already minimised the FS and on my way to remove the Frankenstein's monster. 

Thanks a lot. :)

BR,

M.W.

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