Re: PROBLEM: Filesystem corruption under 2.2.12

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:05:58 -0400


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:53:30 +0200
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:14:02AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> What happens if you unmount the filesystem and run e2fsck -Ff /dev/hda5
> twice, back to back? Do you see the error again after the second time
> you run e2fsck?

Try using flushb in between to force all blocks to be read from disk again
and not from buffer/page cache.

That's what the -F flag does. (and flushb isn't installed by default).

- Ted

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