Re: trying to repair/recover xfs filesystem after system crash

[daniel <djoneill@xxxxxxx>]

So has Steve Lord on 09:05 Friday 08 August 2003 written:
> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 00:18, djoneill@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > ustat(0x304, 0xbfffe724
> > 
> 
> The fact that you are hanging in ustat is strange, is this after the
> failed mount oops (i.e. without a reboot)? It is possible that the
> mount failure left the device locked and you will need a reboot to
> clear it up.
> 
> Try a reboot, then do xfs_logprint -t /dev/hda4 and send us the output,
> You can try the mount again and see if the oops repeats, if it does
> reboot one more time, and run xfs_repair -L (to ignore the log). If the
> ustat hang is there after a reboot then you may have hardware issues.


The problem had to be what you mentioned: the mount failure at boot was locking 
the device.  Turning off auto mounting at boot and running xfs_repair -L 
/dev/hda4 solved the problem.


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Daniel