Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 26, 2014, at 9:24 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 08/26/2014 08:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Aug 23, 2014, at 6:54 PM, jd1008 wrote: >> >>> So, it is not clear to me why there are all these errors, especially since >>> ext4 is supposed >>> to, by design, protect metadata's integrity in t

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-26 Thread jd1008
On 08/26/2014 08:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 23, 2014, at 6:54 PM, jd1008 wrote: So, it is not clear to me why there are all these errors, especially since ext4 is supposed to, by design, protect metadata's integrity in the face of such HW problems (which I am unsure what those HW pro

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-26 Thread jd1008
On 08/26/2014 08:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 23, 2014, at 3:38 PM, jd1008 wrote: I have an external esata HD (the WD20NPVX) connected to the laptop via an esata cable to the esata port of the laptop. I am getting ext4 errors for that device (/dev/sdb3 which is only mounted partition o

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 23, 2014, at 6:54 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > On 08/23/2014 04:02 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/23/2014 02:38 PM, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>> I am getting ext4 errors for that device (/dev/sdb3 which is only >>> mounted partition on that drive), >>> and even getting ext4 errors on /dev/sda3 which is

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 23, 2014, at 3:38 PM, jd1008 wrote: > I have an external esata HD (the WD20NPVX) connected to the laptop > via an esata cable to the esata port of the laptop. > > I am getting ext4 errors for that device (/dev/sdb3 which is only mounted > partition on that drive), > and even getting ext

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2014, jd1008 wrote: > However, I found no files in > /sdb3/lost+found [] > At this point I do not have any EXT4-fs error messages in the output > of dmesg and in the file /var/log/messages. Great! Seems you have a healthy filesystem now. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-24 Thread jd1008
On 08/24/2014 12:06 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 24.08.2014, Heinz Diehl wrote: After that, boot from an external medium (e.g. a CD/DVD/USB-stick).. http://www.sysresccd.org You could burn the image onto a CD, or copy it to an USB-stick. One way to create a bootable USB-stick is to run isohybri

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2014, Heinz Diehl wrote: > After that, boot from an external medium (e.g. a CD/DVD/USB-stick).. http://www.sysresccd.org You could burn the image onto a CD, or copy it to an USB-stick. One way to create a bootable USB-stick is to run isohybrid on the .iso image (isohybrid is in the "sy

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2014, jd1008 wrote: > https://www.sendspace.com/file/ym076o You have some old inodes in the inode hash list which have the same inode number. In addition, your filesystem metadata are corrupted. I assume you have a backup of all your important data on this partition? If not, try to cop

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-23 Thread jd1008
On 08/23/2014 04:02 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/23/2014 02:38 PM, jd1008 wrote: I am getting ext4 errors for that device (/dev/sdb3 which is only mounted partition on that drive), and even getting ext4 errors on /dev/sda3 which is the root partition. I took a quick look at the errors and reall

Re: ext4 error messages

2014-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2014 02:38 PM, jd1008 wrote: I am getting ext4 errors for that device (/dev/sdb3 which is only mounted partition on that drive), and even getting ext4 errors on /dev/sda3 which is the root partition. I took a quick look at the errors and really don't like all those mentions of inodes