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Re: xfs_repair complications

To: Thomas Hall <mhall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfs_repair complications
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 19 Aug 2002 21:29:34 -0500
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <170460-22002822015518219@dslink.net>
References: <170460-22002822015518219@dslink.net>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 20:55, Thomas Hall wrote:
> I keep getting a recurrence of a defective directory inode with the
> same xfs_repair output every time. I get this from the latest
> xfs_repair snapshot as well as three other versions thereof:
> 
> Matt R Hall
> mhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 


Basically, you cannot leave files in lost+found when you run
repair. If you look at this output:

> 
> 
> 
> Phase 2 - using internal log
>         - zero log...
>         - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps...
......
>         - agno = 27
>         - clearing existing "lost+found" inode
>         - marking entry "lost+found" to be deleted

We just blew away lost+found - along with anything inside it.

Now we put them back again.

>         - moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ...
> disconnected inode 100742368, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742370, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742387, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742390, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742407, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742420, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742422, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742429, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742432, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742464, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742482, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742484, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742486, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100742490, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100745856, moving to lost+found
> disconnected inode 100745903, moving to lost+found
> done
> 

Try removing lost+found first, or just rename it to something
else. This will stop happening.

Steve



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