Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: minor On an armel system with 32M of RAM and no swap, attempting e2fsck on a certain filesystem (details below) resulted in:
m...@stuff:~$ sudo e2fsck /dev/sdc1 e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... Media was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Error allocating block bitmap (1): Memory allocation failed e2fsck: aborted Note the "Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks..." error. It's failing later due to an allocation failure, so it wouldn't succeed in any case. This seemed worth reporting as the earlier error hints that there may be an earlier allocation failure which is not recognized as such. Enabling swap and then re-running the e2fsck command avoided this error, and it proceeds to Pass 1 directly. I didn't let it run to completion, and instead ran the fsck on a different system (which found no errors in the filesystem). The filesystem in question is: Filesystem volume name: Media Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 5c0d3c28-427e-4ddd-a3dd-6a9aea10fe6f Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 178880 Block count: 183143637 Reserved block count: 1831436 Free blocks: 4795691 Free inodes: 156167 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 980 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 32 Inode blocks per group: 1 Filesystem created: Sun Apr 20 13:08:15 2008 Last mount time: Mon Dec 22 17:02:31 2008 Last write time: Mon Dec 22 17:02:41 2008 Mount count: 362 Maximum mount count: 34 Last checked: Mon Jun 16 14:16:43 2008 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Sat Dec 13 13:16:43 2008 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: 032f60b3-e9c9-41db-9484-49e3e3b104c3 Journal backup: inode blocks -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-ixp4xx Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.41.3-1 ext2 filesystem libraries ii libblkid1 1.41.3-1 block device id library ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library ii libss2 1.41.3-1 command-line interface parsing lib ii libuuid1 1.41.3-1 universally unique id library e2fsprogs recommends no packages. Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests: pn e2fsck-static <none> (no description available) pn gpart <none> (no description available) pn parted <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
