Description of Problem: after a power failure, one of the ext2 filesystems had several problems. Ran fsck, and cleaned up most, but the following occurs, and e2fsck refuses to fix the problem: Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999) e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/sdc1 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Error reading block 4358149 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. Igno re error<y>? yes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Error reading block 3309569 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while reading inode and block bitmaps. Ignore error<y>? yes /dev/sdc1: 141991/2244608 files (0.3% non-contiguous), 959517/4482127 blocks If i respond "N" to the prompt, fsck exits. I tried a version of e2fsck from redhat 7.2 with identical results (except for the version number info). in addition, debugfs refuses to open the filessystem, so i cannot delete the offending inode, and continue to fix the filesystem. if the situation were less serious, debugfs' message would be somewhat amusing: [root@ovlinux /root]# debugfs -w /dev/sdc1 debugfs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/sdc1: Can't read an inode bitmap while reading inode bitmap debugfs: open /dev/sdv\v/c\cds/ved/ nepo/ debugfs: open /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: Can't read an inode bitmap while reading inode bitmap how can i get rid of these two inodes? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Please try to update to a current e2fsprogs and check if that error is still happeneing with that to rescue your data. The e2fsprogs release in Red Hat Linux 6.2 is already pretty ancient and many bugfixes have gone into more recent versions. Please re-open if you can still see problems with a current release and have some direction on what problems you have on-disk that are not yet solvable with e2fsprogs. Thanks, Florian La Roche