Re: ext2 corruption?

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:16:28 +0300 (MSK)


In <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901091239390.77-100000@galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu> Goran Gajic (ggajic@galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu) wrote:

> Hi,

> Can anyone explain how is this possible?
> galeb-Sat09-12:38pm/users/etf/chuka/.tin# ls -al
> total 18
> drwx------ 5 chuka etf 1024 May 28 1998 ./
> drwx--x--x 9 chuka etf 1024 Jan 2 19:47 ../
> drwx------ 2 chuka etf 1024 Apr 26 1996 .mail/
> drwx------ 2 chuka etf 1024 Apr 26 1996 .news/
> drwx------ 2 chuka etf 1024 Apr 26 1996 .save/
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 100664896 Apr 26 1996 attributes
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 67110035 Nov 6 1997 filter
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 67108951 Apr 26 1996 headers
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 420 May 28 1998 newsgroups
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 67108941 Apr 26 1996 posted
> -rw------- 1 chuka etf 7430 May 28 1998 tinrc
> galeb-Sat09-12:38pm/users/etf/chuka/.tin# du -sk
> 17 .
> galeb-Sat09-12:38pm/users/etf/chuka/.tin#

> Kernel is 2.0.36. I have no idea how/when did this happen. e2fsck doesn't
> find anything wrong (e2fsprograms version is 1.12). Btw. I have
> expirienced this problem only on partitions that were mke2fs long
> time ago..

Hm. But what's wrong here ? IMO all is just fine (from ext2fs viewpoint anyway).
Just like in sample below:
-- cut --
[khim@khim test]$ perl -e 'for $i (0..9) {
> open(FILE,">$i");seek(FILE,1073741823,0);print(FILE " ");close(FILE); }'
[khim@khim test]$ ls -al
total 42
drwxrwxr-x 2 khim khim 1024 Jan 11 15:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 khim khim 1024 Jan 11 15:09 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 6
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 7
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 khim khim 1073741824 Jan 11 15:10 9
[khim@khim test]$ du .
41 .
[khim@khim test]$
-- cut --

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