xfs_repair on a 1.5 TiB image has been hanging for about an hour, now

[Eric Sandeen]

Nicolas Stransky wrote:
> The -P option allowed me to complete xfs_repair successfully, but it
> also deleted almost everything on the filesystem... A directory that I
> could mount -o ro,norecovery before, with tens of GB of data in it, is
> now empty... That is really too bad.

Any idea what happened to the fs - what prompted the repair?

Did you save the logs, or a preliminary metadump?

I wonder what it found.  The files aren't in lost+found/ ?

 
> Thanks for your help.

Such as it was, I guess...

-Eric