Mike Burger wrote:
>
> Well, yesterday it was the disappearance of everything in the /var
> directory. I shutdown and rebooted the system, and received a message
> during boot that /dev/hdb1 couldn't be mounted due to missing file system
> or bad superblock.
Hm, that's a generic mount error message that will happen for a variety
of reasons...
Sort of "windows-esque" if you ask me. :)
Any other messages in the syslogs when you try to mount it?
> df showed mounts of /dev/hda1 (/boot), /devhda2 (/) and /dev/hdc1 (/home).
>
> I tried, just for kicks, to fsck /dev/hdb1, but it came back with a
> message about a bad superblock (as it should have.)
Actually, fsck should have run fsck.xfs, which is pretty simple:
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
return 0;
}
:)
> I then tried to
> mkfs.xfs /dev/hdb1, and it came back with a message that there was
> already an XFS filesystem on the device.
Well, that's good news...
I suppose it's pretty possible that it is a bad disk, just wondered what
you had run into.
-Eric
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