On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Eric Sandeen [off-list ref] wrote:

On 12/9/16 2:29 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:

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On Dec 8, 2016, at 10:40 PM, Simon Matthews [off-list ref] wrote:

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I have an ext3 filesystem that will not mount under newer versions of
the kernel and I hope someone here can help.

Obviously, one solution is "backup and re-create from scratch". I have
the backups, but I hope that there may be a quicker method to fix the
issues.

The root issue is that the filesystem is very slightly smaller than
the allocated space.

So the device is now smaller than the filesystem thinks, right?

Yes, I got that the wrong way round in my original email. The device
is very slightly smaller than the filesystem.


Simon