Comment 7 for bug 864344

I'm not sure what I did. The drive is an "internal" 2 TB drive that I use in a
drive dock, only for backups. It had not been checked in a long time and was
seriously hosed. That is why I ran fsck with -y: to get to a sane state where I
would not damage things further by doing file operations. I wound up with over
100 things in lost+found, almost all empty files and directories.

I have about 8 of these in various sizes. Very handy for off-site backups (keep
one in the house of a friend in the next town, rotate, repeat). The systems
they run on are on a reliable UPS, but that does not help much when Linux
crashes. Since these migrate, they are not automounted and not subject to
boot-time fsck scrutiny. I'll have to do something about that.

 Kevin O'Gorman, Ph.D. mailto:<email address hidden>
Home Page: http://www.kosmanor.com/~kevin

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From: Dave Gilbert <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Sat, October 1, 2011 3:57:43 PM
Subject: [Bug 864344] Re: fsck -y leaves problems behind

Well in the 1st run it does warn you that something odd happened:

WARNING: PROGRAMMING BUG IN E2FSCK!
    OR SOME BONEHEAD (YOU) IS CHECKING A MOUNTED (LIVE) FILESYSTEM.
inode_link_info[23300069] is 2, inode.i_links_count is 1. They should be the
same!
Inode 23300069 ref count is 1, should be 1. Fix? yes

so I think after that warning all bets are off - and I can see from your df -h
that your /dev/sdg1 isn't mounted,
so it does look like an e2fsck bug it got to that point.

Can I ask what did you do to your fs to get it into this state where the fsck
started off with those
errors and can you describe the hardware.

Dave

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Title:
  fsck -y leaves problems behind

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Fixing an ext4 file system required multiple passes. This is
  counter-intuitive in a program that will sometimes say something to
  the effect that "problems remain" but did not do so this time.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: e2fsprogs 1.41.14-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Oct 1 14:33:30 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: e2fsprogs
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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