Use latest xfs_repair on older file systems

[Chris M Moser]

Thank you kindly for you responses.

-Chris


On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Chris M Moser <chris.m.moser at seagate.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a file system that experienced issues and would not mount. The
> system would not boot either as this file system was listed in /etc/fstab.
> I booted to a debian image with xfsprogs 3.2.1 and ran xfs_repair
>
> The host OS now boots and the file system mounts but has only a handful of
> the original files.
> I unmounted and ran xfs_repair 2.9.4 form the host OS a few more times. (I
> read somewhere that running xfs_repair multiple times can find more files)
> I still see the same handful of files.
>
> A previous thread (http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-06/msg00204.html)
> suggests running the latest xfs_repair as it may be able to reattach more
> files.
>
> I booted to a fedora 23 live image and updated xfsprogs to 4.5.0.
> (openSUSE Tumbleweed has xfsprogs 4.5.0 but I was not able to get their
> live image working) When running xfs_repair on the file system it
> complains: xfs_repair: V1 inodes unsupported. Please try an older
> xfsporgs.
>
> Is it reasonable to assume that xfs_repair has done all it can and I
> should now use photorec from the testdisk package to recover what I can?
>
> Thank you for your feedback.
>
> -Chris
>
> --
> Christopher M Moser
>
> Seagate Technology LLC
> Cluster Lab Administrator
> NRM Bldg A/A1-3
> chris.m.moser at seagate.com
> 952-402-8269
>
>


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Christopher M Moser

Seagate Technology LLC
Cluster Lab Administrator
NRM Bldg A/A1-3
chris.m.moser at seagate.com
952-402-8269
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