On Sep 19, 2014, at 11:49 AM, jd1008 <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 09/19/2014 08:39 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 09/18/2014 10:57 PM, jd1008 wrote: >>> I ran mkfs.ext3 -S /dev/sdc7 >>> then ran fsck.ext3 -y /dev/sdc7 >>> it blew away EVERYTHING :) >>> >>> Back to square one and re-dd original to test drive >>> and start over. >> >> Ouch! That _used_ to work. Trying it just now, "mke3fs -S" seems >> to clear a substantial portion of the inodes, which the manpage >> specifically says it should _not_ do, and then /fsck/ completes the >> destruction by moving all of the remaining inodes to lost+found. >> >> Sorry about that. >> > Can raise a bug against it?
Chances are this is an upstream bug, or a misunderstanding. You should post your reproduce steps to the ext4 list, what you expect to happen based on man page, and what actually happens. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-ext4 Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
