Re: mkswap'ed an xfs partition

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:56:56PM -0800, 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?

try xfs_repair

presumably SB0 is intack (as I don't think swap uses this) if not it
will scan for another one which should take a while

hopefully this will get most if not all of your filesystem back