ext3 fs problems

[Brian Densmore]

I am running some partitions with ext3. I had a disk corruption last
week.
I unmounted the affected file system and ran e2fsck.ext3 for ext3 and 
everything is fine now. Of course this will only work if e2fsck is
available
after unmounting the file system. :'(
Which was true for me /usr was corrupted, and it is a different
partition.
Another good reason to separate your drive into partitions.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at opus1.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:00 AM
> To: 'kclug at kclug.org'
> Subject: ext3 fs problems
> 
> 
> I had a problem recently where I filled up a couple of 
> partitions on a new
> RedHat 7.2 server with the ext3 filesystem.  Now, random 
> files are corrupt
> on the partitions, and in one case a bunch of directories seem to have
> disappeared.
> 
> This reminds me of when I was running a compressed partition 
> with DiskSpace
> or whatever it was Microsoft eventually bought for disk compression
> (pre-NT).  The compression system used some sort of algorithm 
> to "estimate"
> available space, and this was tunable.  However, estimated 
> space was what
> was reported to DOS, and if the estimate was greater than 
> available space,
> WHAM, corrupt files all over the place as DOS kept writing 
> after space ran
> out.
> 
> Anybody have any comments or experience with ext3fs?  Is this 
> a shortcoming
> in a new filesystem, or am I completely off my rocker and is 
> it clearly a
> hardware failure?
> 
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