On Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:01 AM Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
Samuel,
On 2020-08-30 17:12, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 8/30/20 12:07 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
that it would take weeks! So unless someone can suggest a faster method of fixing the partition (mainly just as an exercise now) or at least just working out what is wrong with it, I guess I will just have to re-create the partition?
Since you have a very recent full backup, I would recommend just reformatting the partition. If the damage is that extensive, it's not worth trying to fix it.
You are probably right - it would be an interesting exercise if it could be done though . .
It's pretty good.
You could file a bug against e2fsprogs in RHBZ. But I think you'll get a faster response just going direct to the linux-ext4 list.
Are there any kernel messages at the time of the original problem? Complete dmesg preferred.
smartctl -x /dev/ as well.
And et them know e2fsprogs version.
-- Chris Murphy