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Subject: -8- My XFS filesystem is corrupt or inconsistent. How do I
fix it?
Date: 28 Apr 2000 11:58:53 PDT
Under IRIX 6.2, get the latest XFS rollup patch and install it.
(At the time of this writing, the latest XFS rollup patch was patch
1768.) This patch comes with xfs_repair, a tool that can often fix
corrupted XFS filesystems. (If the partition you wish to repair is
your boot partition, you will have to boot from the miniroot that
comes with the patch and run xfs_repair from it.) Actual installation
of the patch requires the installation of one of the recent kernel
rollup patches; read the XFS rollup patch release notes before doing
anything else with it.
Under the 6.5.x release stream, 'xfs_repair' and 'xfs_check' are
installed by default as part of eoe.sw.base. Please note that xfs
check and repair operations are performed on unmounted filesystems.
See the xfs_repair(1) manpage for details. Also, it is best to
do an initial scan on a damaged filesystem using 'xfs_repair -n',
(no modify mode) as extremely corrupted filesystems can occasionally
cause an xfs_repair to fail with a core dump.
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