On Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 2:01 AM Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote:
Samuel,


On 2020-08-30 17:12, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 8/30/20 12:07 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> that it would take weeks!  So unless someone can suggest a faster
>> method of fixing the partition (mainly just as an exercise now) or at
>> least just working out what is wrong with it, I guess I will just have
>> to re-create the partition?
>
> Since you have a very recent full backup, I would recommend just
> reformatting the partition.  If the damage is that extensive, it's not
> worth trying to fix it.


You are probably right - it would be an interesting exercise if it could
be done though . .

It's pretty good. 

You could file a bug against e2fsprogs in RHBZ. But I think you'll get a faster response just going direct to the linux-ext4 list.

Are there any kernel messages at the time of the original problem? Complete dmesg preferred.

smartctl -x /dev/  as well.

And et them know e2fsprogs version.



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Chris Murphy