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On January 15, 2016 12:27:50 AM PST, jdd
Hello,
I have a strange ext4 problem. The disk was an old backup I didn't use and just wanted to reuse, but just in case I would like to know how to fix it and see if the disk is not damaged.
any hint? thanks jdd
dmesg says:
EXT4-fs (sdn1): bad geometry: block count 488378390 exceeds size of device (488378389 blocks)
notice there is only one block error
then:
LANG=us ; mount /dev/sdn1 /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdn1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so.
fsck.ext4 /dev/sdn1 e2fsck 1.42.11 (09-Jul-2014) The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 488378390 blocks The physical size of the device is 488378389 blocks Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt! Abort<y>? no sauvegarde-2t contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information sauvegarde-2t: 957175/122101760 files (0.9% non-contiguous), 453175967/488378390 blocks
Do you care at this point? About data recovery I mean? What does SMART say? Are all spare sectors assigned? If not, I'd nuke it, define the whole thing as a new partition, format, then run diagnostics. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org