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SubjectRe: ext2_unlink fun
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> It would be nice to determine _why_ you can't unlink these files. If
> it was just an issue of size > 2GB, you should get EFBIG error or so.
> People have been reporting undeletable files several times now... Before
> you reformat, could you do some debugging?

If someone guides me, I can do all the debugging you want.

>
> It appears a reasonable spot to get the EIO from is in ext2_delete_entry()
> where we are validating the de in ext2_check_dir_entry(). Can you check
> your syslog for any error messages, like:
>
> ext2_delete_entry: bad entry in directory X: 199908231702.txt ...

Only message I have is EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_unlink:
Deleting nonexistent file (1343506), 0


> Obviously e2fsck doesn't fix the problem? Could you run debugfs on this
> filesystem, cd to the "mac3dfx/news/1999/08" directory, and "stat" each
> of these broken files? This may help to identify what is wrong with the
> files that e2fsck isn't fixing.

Correct, this was after running e2fsck. I'll try running it again when I
get home. Here is debugfs stat output for one of the broken files.
Again, I havent run e2fsck a second time yet.

debugfs: stat 199908231702.txt
Inode: 1343489 Type: bad type Mode: 0000 Flags: 0x0
Version/Generation: 0
User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 0
File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0
Links: 0 Blockcount: 0
Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0
ctime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
atime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mtime: 0x00000000 -- Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
BLOCKS:



I'll send the results of what I get after running a fsck again in about
6 hours.


Thanks for your help.

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