Re: 2.4.20-rc3 ext3 fsck corruption -- tool update warning needed?

Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de)
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:15:43 +0100


On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Clemmitt Sigler wrote:

> I'd been running 2.4.20-rc3 for two days. While rebooting it tonight
> fsck.ext3 corrupted my / partition during an automatic fsck of the
> partition (caused by the maximal mount count being reached). (I had
> backups so I was able to recover :^) The symptoms were that some files
> like /etc/fstab and dirs like /etc/rc2.d disappeared -- not good.
>
> My system is Debian Testing, with Debian e2fsprogs version
> 1.29+1.30-WIP-0930-1. I use ext3 partitions with all options set to
> the defaults (ordered data mode). This is an SMP system, in case
> that matters. Please e-mail me for any other details that might help.

Retry with 1.32. I don't think the corruption is kernel-related, but I
may be wrong.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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