e2undel claims a partition is unclean and mounted when it is not

[Rolf Leggewie]

Binary package hint: e2undel

root@Rie:~# e2fsck /dev/sda12
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
EXPORT: clean, 809476/27574272 files, 50643536/55125031 blocks
root@Rie:~# sudo e2undel -d /dev/sda12 -s /tmp/e2undel/
e2undel 0.82
Trying to recover files on /dev/sda12, saving them on /tmp/e2undel/
Checking only for named deleted files (use '-a' for all files)

/dev/sda12 opened for read-only access
/dev/sda12 was not cleanly unmounted.
Do you want wo continue (y/n)? y
27574272 inodes (26764796 free)
55125031 blocks of 4096 bytes (4481495 free)
last mounted on Fri May 23 15:50:18 2008

/dev/sda12 is mounted. Do you want to continue (y/n)? y

reading log file: opening log file: No such file or directory
no entries for /dev/sda12 in log file

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

IOW, e2undel doesn't really do anything here

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm sorry that nobody cared about your bug yet. Are you still having problems with this bug? I would need your Ubuntu version to do a test, that I can clarify if it's an Ubuntu only bug or a bug in upstream. Thank you very much!

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thomas, thank you for having a look. I have updated the computer in question to lucid. Fortunately, the disk layout hasn't changed since I reported this bug. I can verify that the bug is still mostly the same. Please let me know if you need any further information.

$ sudo e2fsck /dev/sda12
e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
EXPORT: clean, 377256/27574272 files, 51101972/55125031 blocks
$ sudo e2undel -d /dev/sda12 -s /tmp/e2undel/
e2undel 0.82
Trying to recover files on /dev/sda12, saving them on /tmp/e2undel/
Checking only for named deleted files (use '-a' for all files)

/dev/sda12 opened for read-only access
/dev/sda12 was not cleanly unmounted.
Do you want wo continue (y/n)? n
$ apt-cache policy e2undel
e2undel:
  Installed: 0.82-1.1
  Candidate: 0.82-1.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.82-1.1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.intergenia.de/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you Rolf for providing this data to us! I have no test device available, so I hope someone else could look at this bug.

I'm sorry that I can't help you more.