Hosed XFS drive?

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Peter King wrote:

> Anyone with any experience fixing XFS filesystems? Any ideas?

Try using xfs_repair -L.  This will zero the log and then attempt the 
repair.  You may lose data out of this, as per the man page.  In the years 
that I've been using XFS I've had 2 occassions when a vanilla xfs_repair 
failed but an xfs_repair -L succeeded (without data loss).

Rob

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