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NVX expansion considered harmful
Background A volume scan after expansion killed everything sending me a 2.2MB email full of "corrected" errors while in fact moving everything to lost+found potentially corrupted. Thus, I wanted to kn...
scastano wrote: Can I run FSCK online with the partition unmounted? Or do I have to do with on reboot the automatic way?
Glad you could mount your fs read-only. Once you've safely retrieved your data, you could try unmounting and running fsck manually and see what happens. If you're in the same situation as I was, expect to see thousands of errors and the fsck process to be incredibly slow. In my case, the fsck wouldn't complete due to out of memory errors (the filesystem was too large for the 32-bit address space, IIRC). At any rate, the quantity and severity of the errors implied that it wouldn't/couldn't be fixed - so I retrieved my data, and factory reset the system.
Things are better now - no issues since then, but then again I won't be trying to expand my volume (ever) again.
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