Hi Background: I'm running out of disk space so I'm in the process of migrating from a 6 x 250 GB RAID5 setup to a 4 x 1TB RAID5 setup (hardware RAID) and in that process I shuffled files around. From the old RAID5 setup to a 1TB sata disk that I connected to the system with a USB-SATA adapter, copied over about 800GB worth of files, verified with 'diff -r <source> <target>' that everything was correctly written to the external disk. Then I initialized the new raid setup and was about to copy the files back there when something went wrong. When I issued the 'cp -r <source> <target>' command it ended with errors and the following is from /var/log/messages from that time: Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: sde1: rw=1, want=24945625696, limit=1953520002 Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: sde1: rw=1, want=30503886728, limit=1953520002 Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: sde1: rw=1, want=18088756928, limit=1953520002 Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 2261094615 Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sde1 Oct 16 07:56:39 zeus kernel: Aborting journal on device sde1. /dev/sde is the external sata disk connected with the USB-SATA adapter When I run fsck -n /dev/sde1 it ended with Illegal block #6 (2893280036) in inode 30458635. IGNORED. Illegal block #7 (3226453326) in inode 30458635. IGNORED. Illegal block #8 (2372976667) in inode 30458635. IGNORED. Illegal block #9 (4278396910) in inode 30458635. IGNORED. Illegal block #10 (872667331) in inode 30458635. IGNORED. Too many illegal blocks in inode 30458635. Clear inode? no Suppress messages? no Illegal block #-1 (2576513075) in inode 30458635. IGNORED. Illegal block #-2 (1939514357) in inode 30458635. IGNORED. Illegal block #-3 (3785979420) in inode 30458635. IGNORED. Error while iterating over blocks in inode 30458635: Illegal triply indirect block found e2fsck: aborted Any idea what happened here? Any chance of rescuing the files? It's Fedora 8 system with kernel 2.6.24.7-92. Regards Markus -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
