Re: Total filesystem crash

[Nathan Straz <nstraz@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0200, Alexey Tsiban wrote:
> I was putting data into filesystem with slackware install script and then
> by coping with mc from other non-xfs partition.
> Crash was that root xfs filesystem disappeared "on the fly" and system did
> not oopsed, it was working until reboot, but ls in / dir shows nothing.
> I could even "cd" to some dirs as /usr or /tmp, but I could not see them
> in ls.
> After reboot kernel can not mount this xfs filesystem.

Did you check your logs?  I would wager that there was a message like
"xfs_force_shutdown" in there.  The other messages around that would
give us more hints on what's going on.
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