Dear debian enthusiasts, I use rdiff-backup, which now is not able to work with my most precious backup, instead throws a python backtrace which contains:
OSError: [Errno 117] Structure needs cleaning: b'/mnt/mic-backup/rdiff-backup/durable/rdiff-backup-data/increments/home/grfz/.procmail/backup-post-mailmunge/new' While a fsck.ext4 -vvvtfDfy on that file system gives Failed to optimize directory /rdiff-backup/durable/rdiff-backup-data/increments/home/grfz/.procmail/backup-post-mailmunge/new (498074110): Directory block does not have space for checksum in Pass 3A: Optimizing directories. Because of https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/space-management-with-large-directories-in-ext4 I tried to copy said directory: cp -a new neu this too does not work: cp: cannot access 'new': Structure needs cleaning cp: preserving times for 'neu': Read-only file system Any ideas how to repair said directory, clean the structure, or another work around to at least get rdiff-backup get to use the backup again for restoring? Or where to ask? The ext3-users mailing list does not exist any more? Or how to avoid such a problem next time? Thanks in advance for any hints, Gregor
