Re: things to do in brooklyn when your filesystem is dead

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:33:12PM -0500, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
> In the immortal words of Nathan Scott (nathans@xxxxxxx):
> > 
> > Is it:
> > "xlog_find_tail returned error X"?
> 
> Yup!
> 

OK, thanks.

>  ...
> There are quite a lot of errors of that sort, but right there it looks
> like my entire root directory is toast.
> 
> Is there anything that can be done manually to avoid this, or should I
> just let xfs_repair do its job and salvage what I can from lost+found?
> 

That's pretty much the only option available at this point
(unless you've used xfsdump/some other backup utility to keep
a recent backup, and can use that in conjunction/instead).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan