hmm, on Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:05:57PM +0100, frantisek holop said that > background: > i am trying to run an e2fsck on an 120G ext2 partition on that > usb external disk and it just stops reading from the disk at > random positions. for example it gets up to 30% of pass 1, > then it just stops. no read errors in dmesg, nohing just > idling. eventually the disk spins down. top says it's in > 'biowait'. (it could also be a bug in e2fsck)
i have upgraded to the latest snapshot, and indeed the splassert goes away. (but e2fsck still does not finish the disk, it stops reading at random positions of pass 1 (30%, 11%) and sits there doing nothing.) -f -- save a tree. eat a beaver.
