After a crash, fsck on the file system shows "Free blocks count wrong"
Issue
- After crash/uncontrolled shutdown, fsck on the file system shows "Free blocks count wrong"
# fsck -nvf /dev/vdb1
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check.
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
Block bitmap differences: +(101725--163839) +164481 +(165888--229375) +(231424--237608)
Fix? no
Free blocks count wrong (2345109, counted=2476898).
Fix? no
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- FSCK option not enabled in /etc/fstab for the filesystem
- EXT4 filesystem.
- WRITE IO occurring on the filesystem at the time of crash
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