Re: Problem repairing XFS

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:03:23AM -0400, Anastas Giokov wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> After a disk problem (bad sectors) I have the following problem:
> 
> Using xfs_repair on the device I receive the following message:
> 
> corrupt inode XXXXX (btree). Unmount and run xfs_repair.
> fatal error -- 990 - couldn't iget disconnected inode
> 
> The device is unmounted at this point and re-running xfs_repair dives the 
> same output. The resulting fs is mountable, but part of it is not recovered.
> 
> Is there a way to "skip" the corrupt inode, so the repair can finish, even 
> losing some data?

You can use xfs_db to zero inodes/directories by hand... or
fix the repair bug, but thats a more difficult undertaking.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan