I'm inclined to agree with you Ben, this does seem like a bug in the userspace tools. Especially since it doesn't appear that anything changes.
Vincent, can you clarify that to replicate, there must be a fsck on the next reboot? If you don't force a fsck, does the filesystem remount alright? Does the problem occur if you force a fsck after that reboot? I'll see if I can ask some knowledgable EXT people to shed a bit of light on this for us, because I'm quite stumped. -- Deleting large files corrupts EXT3 file system https://launchpad.net/bugs/83982 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs