On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:25:06PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> When I investigated one of the machines, mounting the filesystem in
> read/write mode after having booted from a rescue CD automatically fixed
> part of it, freeing about 60% of the filesystem. Running xfs_repair
> further freed up space by moving disconnected inodes to lost+found.
Most likely, the problem is that the root filesystem is being mounted
readonly by the kernel. This is default, and I believe Debian leaves that
as the default. The problem is that the readonly root mount prevents the
recovery when the filesystem is mounted. Apparently, remounting as
read/write doesn't cause this recovery to happen.
Perhaps this should be added to the XFS FAQ, rather than just saying that
"Yes", XFS can be used for the root FS.
Dave Brown
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