Re: mkswap'ed an xfs partition

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Robert Thralls wrote:
> I typed "mkswap /dev/hda4" instead of "mkswap /dev/sda4" and applied it to an xfs storage partition! I have no experience repairing xfs. I have not mounted or done anything else with this partition yet.  Is there a way to recover everything or at least a list of everything that was lost?  Could I just do a "mkfs.xfs /dev/hda4" and pretend it never happened?
>  
>  kernel 2.6.15, gentoo, xfsprogs-2.6.25
>  

don't mkfs it!  I -think- that mkswap just stamps a signature onto the 
front of the disk; I'm guessing that xfs_repair can recover from this. 
You could dd hda4 into an image file if you have room, to test it there 
first.

-Eric

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