SQLITE_IOERR_CORRUPTFS
SQLiteFATALCriticalI/O Errorofficial confidence
I/O error — filesystem is corrupt
Production Risk
Critical — filesystem-level corruption; requires fsck and restore.
What this means
SQLITE_IOERR_CORRUPTFS (8458) is returned when an I/O error is detected that is likely due to filesystem corruption rather than a SQLite bug. Available since SQLite 3.35.0.
Why it happens
- 1Filesystem corruption (ext4/NTFS journal corruption).
- 2Power failure without proper journaling.
- 3Failed storage media.
How to reproduce
I/O operations on a filesystem with structural corruption.
trigger — this will error
trigger — this will error
# Run filesystem check when this error appears: # umount /dev/sda1 && fsck.ext4 -f /dev/sda1
expected output
sqlite3.DatabaseError: disk I/O error
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Version notes
Sources
Official documentation ↗
sqlite3.h — SQLITE_IOERR_CORRUPTFS = 8458
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