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Re: suerblock corrupted

To: Michal Kurowski <michal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: suerblock corrupted
From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:47:40 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20010918222159.B4806@orfeus>
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I ran into a similar problem, a couple of weeks ago.

I'm assuming, since you're working with hdc2, that it's not your boot or
root drive?

If not, perhaps xfs_repair (which was recommended to me when I was having
my troubles) might do the trick?

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Michal Kurowski wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using 2.4.9 patched - from CVS.
> Works great but  recently I  managed to corrupt the superblock and I'm
> no longer  able to mount my HD (wrong fs type, bad option.... etc.).
> Unfortunately there's a swap partition preceding the xfs partition on
> the drive and after little inspection I can see the superblock has
> actually been swaped...
> I've been rather unhappy to find out xfsdump won't do much in this
> case and even worse my "dd" is not able to work with huge files ( hdc2
> is 40GB or something).
> I tried to things:
> 1) recompiling dd ( fileutils-4.1) - the same
> 2) using xfs_copy - after a while I managed to compile it all it can
> do is segfault...
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions.
>
>


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