On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:04:55AM -0500, Thedore Knab wrote: > I got the following error. > > Error message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
