gast6@xxxxxx said:
>> ... hmmm seemed to be optimistic...
>> I tried to repair the root with xfs repair ... that worked ... but the
>> second time ... it moved some things to lost+found now I get an
>> unbootable system...
>>
>> it boots up until "turning on user and group quotas for local
>> filesystems " then I get "/etc/rc.sysinit: rm:command not found"
>>
>> I have to reinstall ... :(
>>
>> this is on a laptop with XFS beta4 iso (Pre Release it says on the CD)
>>
Can you give a more complete description of what you did? You say you
tried to repair the root, was this from the miniroot?
Also, as a rule, xfs_repair -n on a running filesystem can give confusing
and invalid results. Repair is reading data direct from the disk and will
not see anything still in buffers within the kernel, this can result in
erroneous reports of corruption. Also running repair on a filesystem which
was not cleanly shutdown and has not been remounted since then can also
produce worse results than remounting the filesystem to replay the log,
then unmounting and running repair.
Finally, repair puts unlinked files in a lost+found directory, but if files
are left there and repair is run again, it will unlink lost+found and find
the files as unlinked again. The thing to do is to move the recovered files
somewhere else before running repair again.
Steve
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