Re: "busy hang" on e2fsck (on a ext3 partition)

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso mit edu>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:03:21AM -0400, Stuffed Crust wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 03:05:26PM -0400, Stuffed Crust wrote:
> > > Could you run the following command, and send me a pointer to it:
> > > e2image -r /dev/hdXXX | bzip2 > hdXXX.img.bz2
> > 
> > It's running now.  I'll send you a pointer once the output is uploaded
> > somewhere public.  Hopefully it won't be that large...
> 
> It's still running.  The bzip2'ed image is up to 60 megs now, slowly
> growing..

Well, let me know how it goes.  bzip2 does take a lot of CPU time....

The other possibility is I could ask you if I could login to your
machine, but there are always security/privacy issues with that ---
that's why I like to ask people to send me a compressed e2image
whenever possible.

					- Ted