Hi again,
Thanks to Eric Sandeen for his reply. I found that by mounting the disk
in another machine and using xfs_repair (without the -L option) I was able
to repair the disk.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 00:46, David Chalmers wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > After some trouble with a machine running Redhat 7.1 with SGI-XFS-1.01
> > we get the following message. Is all lost? Can I recover this?
>
> > XFS: log mount/recovery failed
>
> Hi David -
>
> I don't recall offhand what type of recovery changes have been made
> since 1.0.1... that was quite a while ago. You might try a more recent
> kernel*, and see if recovery goes better. As a last resort, you could
> use a rescue disk and a recent xfs_repair with the "-L" option to zero
> the log - of course you will lose anything in the log, which could cause
> file/data loss.
>
> Let's see if anyone else has better suggestions before you try that
> drastic step...
>
> -Eric
>
> *booting the 1.0.2 installer in "rescue" mode will get you a 2.4.7
> kernel, for example.
>
> --
> Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
>
>
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