Ubuntu
e2fsprogs package

  1. Bug #1194234
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1194234

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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote :

Was the crash repeatable? It sounds like the drive went out to lunch (since tune2fs -l failed), and the read errors may have caused e2fsck to read bogus information which then caused it to crash. It shouldn't have crashed, of course, but it would be useful to know if that was what happened.