Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:09:15PM +0100, Walter Hofmann wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > I've investigated the file you sent me, and it was very helpful > > indeed, thanks. What is going on is that when a filesystem is resized > > enough so that we need to move the inode

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-21 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I've investigated the file you sent me, and it was very helpful > indeed, thanks. What is going on is that when a filesystem is resized > enough so that we need to move the inode table, we reserve both the > old and new locations of the inode table. Ho

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:59:11AM +0100, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Dear Ted, > > I have now finished preparing the image file you requested. It is > attached to this mail. I have a number of remarks: > > - the output of e2image was one byte longer than the device -- I think > you need to remov

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Oh, instead of waiting for the Debian mirrors to propagate, you could > also download the e2fsprogs 1.36-rc2 sources, and then apply the > following patch... I took e2fsprogs and -libs from incoming.debian.org. It's currently creating the image. I hope

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Oh, instead of waiting for the Debian mirrors to propagate, you could also download the e2fsprogs 1.36-rc2 sources, and then apply the following patch... But, I think I will need the e2image dump in order to figure out what happened. Thanks!! - Ted

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I've looked some more at the information you sent me, and it's not enough to track it down. I can tell that the filesystem had been resized at least once or twice before, and this seems to be related to an inode table being moved, but that's about it. So I've developed a patch to e2image that wil

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:10:28AM +0100, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Hi Ted, > > I have tried to rename the files & make an image for you. However, there > where far to many fragments of old files and filenames left in the image > file (probably in unused parts of directories), so I cannot sent thi

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-18 Thread Walter Hofmann
Hi Ted, I have tried to rename the files & make an image for you. However, there where far to many fragments of old files and filenames left in the image file (probably in unused parts of directories), so I cannot sent this to you. (BTW the image was 12MB and running it through bzip2 a second t

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:45:59PM +0100, Walter Hofmann wrote: > I have a backup, so I could theoretically do as you say. However: I > would have to rename the directories. Will renaming all files to random > names (of the same length, say) disturb the filesystem structure enough > to make the

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Walter Hofmann wrote: > > Package: e2fsprogs > > Version: 1.36rc2-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > I'm not sure how severe this is, but I e2fsck'ed a filesystem just after > > resizing it and got some bitmap error

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:25:46PM +0100, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.36rc2-1 > Severity: normal > > I'm not sure how severe this is, but I e2fsck'ed a filesystem just after > resizing it and got some bitmap errors. Below is a screendump of the > whole session. > The fi

Bug#290894: e2fsprogs: resize2fs creates errors in file system

2005-01-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.36rc2-1 Severity: normal I'm not sure how severe this is, but I e2fsck'ed a filesystem just after resizing it and got some bitmap errors. Below is a screendump of the whole session. The filesystem is on /dev/loop0 (cryptoloop). Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/l