Re: ext4: Funny characters appended to file names

On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 04:39:12PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:

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$ sudo LANG=C fsck.ext4 -f /dev/md0
e2fsck 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
boot: 327/124928 files (17.7% non-contiguous), 126021/497856 blocks

I can’t remember if that was an Ext2 or Ext3 when created several years ago.

Well, the output dumpe2fs will tell us an awful lot about the file
system.

Whe was the last time the directory was OK?  Do you know when it may
have gotten corrupted?

				- Ted