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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fsck inode warnings
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:03:00
Message-Id: 20160628100149.a0bd1b2f4857cfdb01195ce4@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] fsck inode warnings by Zhu Sha Zang
1 Hi,
2
3 On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:56:17 -0400 Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
4 > Helo there, since a while, every time that i use something like "shutdown -Fr now" i receive messages like that:
5 >
6 >
7 > /dev/sda3: Inode 655658 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower. IGNORED.
8 > /dev/sda3: Inode 660107 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower. IGNORED.
9 > /dev/sda3: Inode 661292 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower. IGNORED.
10 > /dev/sda3: Inode 661848 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower. IGNORED.
11 > /dev/sda3: Inode 662317 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower. IGNORED.
12 > /dev/sda3: Inode 662337 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower. IGNORED.
13 > /dev/sda3: Inode 662648 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower. IGNORED.
14 > /dev/sda3: Inode 664488 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower. IGNORED.
15 > /dev/sda3: Inode 666102 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower. IGNORED.
16 > /dev/sda3: Inode 671956 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower. IGNORED.
17 >
18 > What the meaning of this. I was unable to find something useful
19 > to explain these "errors". I already boot with systemrescuecd and
20 > run fsck -f manually, but the warning still appearing.
21
22 These are not errors, but hints that your fs can be optimized.
23 Extent trees can be compacted with:
24
25 e2fsck -fpDv -E bmap2extent /dev/sda3
26
27 Best regards,
28 Andrew Savchenko

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