a subtle bug of ext2 or e2fsck ? (fwd)

Hao He (he@Physics.usyd.edu.au)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:14:59 +1000 (EST)


hi, there,

I recently have had some troubles with my file systems. e2fsck (1.14 )
reports ``Error reading block #### (Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>". I
answered 'y'. However, I got more and more such errors. Eventually, I got
''Attempt to read black from filesystem resulted in short read while
trying to open /dev/hda3''.

I have three partitions from dev/hda1 to /dev/hda3 and I have the same
problems with all three partitions. I reformatted dev/hda1 and it seems
fine. So this is not a hardware problem.

Do you have any idea what is happening here? Is there any tool that I
still can recover my data on /dev/hda3? Debugfs and dumpe2fs all failed
to open the file system on /dev/hda3. I was too stupid to backup my files.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Hao

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