From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:25:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:24:53 -0400 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:38416 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:24:39 -0400 Message-ID: <3B6AFBD1.5F43B496@zip.com.au> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:30:25 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Louis CC: ext3-users , LKML Subject: Re: ac4 ext3 recovery failure In-Reply-To: <20010803082408.A800@athame.dynamicro.on.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg Louis wrote: > > Rebooting to try 2.4.7-ac4, I had Xfree86 crash on exit and hang the > machine (it does that once a month or so; this notebook gets booted > quite often). After fscking the root and another ext2 partition, the > system got to the big ext3 partition and just went dead. No message, > no disk activity, no keyboard response. I powered down and rebooted > 2.4.7-ac3 patched with ext3-2.4-0.9.5-247ac3, and that came up ok and > recovered the journalled partition. Do you think this happened during the e2fsck run, or during the actual mount? -