Hi,
For some reason one of the shares that is critical to our operation has
disappeared.
People were complaining that they were no longer able to access certain shares
so we decided
to reboot the server. (when we looked at it, the server was acting very
sluggish)
When the server came back up, one of our shares was missing. I received an
error message
of /dev/sdb not a valid block device on bootup and when I tried to manually
mount the volume.
(sdb is an attached raid array)
We powered everything down and back up again, and we did not receive the error,
but when
we looked at the share we noticed that it had absolutely nothing in it. We
used KDiskfree
and saw that the share does in fact have something on it, because 68% of the
drive is showing
used.
I have read these newsgroups and saw mention of an xfs_repair and an xfs_check
command.
I unmounted the share and started to run xfs_check and an impossibly large list
started scrolling
by talking about bad blocks. I saw one post that mentioned running xfs_repair
-L but I am unclear
how the xfs_repair will work as well as what the -L option does. I was hoping
to garner some more
information before running the xfs_repair command as some of the data will be
hard to replace.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Brian Gulizia
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