recovering failed resize2fs

Curtis Doty Curtis at GreenKey.net
Sat Oct 18 19:55:56 UTC 2008


While attempting to expand a 1.64T ext4 volume to 2.18T the F9 kernel 
deadlocked. (I have photo of screen/oops if anybody's interested.)

Now after recovery, the filesystem won't mount

   EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 13413 not in 
group (block 0)!<3>EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted!

and fsck won't run:

   fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
   inst: recovering journal
   fsck.ext4: unable to set superblock flags on inst

I peeked at all backup superblocks, but they all appear the same--the 
larger/newer 2.18T geometry. :-(

What is the best way to recover? I know exactly how the original 
filesystem was created. Is there a way to just replay the old superblocks 
and trick it into thinking it never resized?

../C

dumpe2fs 1.41.0 (10-Jul-2008)
Filesystem volume name:   inst
Last mounted on:          <not available>
Filesystem UUID:          ddabbf0c-bf3f-495a-9777-e832cc14e9df
Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
Filesystem revision #:    1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features:      has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype extent sparse_super large_file
Filesystem flags:         signed_directory_hash test_filesystem
Default mount options:    journal_data_writeback
Filesystem state:         clean
Errors behavior:          Remount read-only
Filesystem OS type:       Linux
Inode count:              9080832
Block count:              581173248
Reserved block count:     5808792
Free blocks:              6282771
Free inodes:              4331111
First block:              0
Block size:               4096
Fragment size:            4096
Reserved GDT blocks:      885
Blocks per group:         32768
Fragments per group:      32768
Inodes per group:         512
Inode blocks per group:   16
RAID stride:              32
RAID stripe width:        64
Filesystem created:       Sun Jul 27 21:02:11 2008
Last mount time:          Wed Aug 13 18:28:35 2008
Last write time:          Sat Oct 18 12:39:13 2008
Mount count:              2
Maximum mount count:      -1
Last checked:             Sun Jul 27 21:02:11 2008
Check interval:           0 (<none>)
Reserved blocks uid:      0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid:      0 (group root)
First inode:              11
Inode size:               128
Journal inode:            8
Default directory hash:   tea
Directory Hash Seed:      c6e2cfa3-0545-46a4-8240-ccb987191b88
Journal backup:           inode blocks
Journal size:             256M




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