Re: trying to repair/recover xfs filesystem after system crash

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:57:39AM +0200, onedj@gmx.net wrote:
> A couple weeks ago my system powered down suddenly.  One XFS filesystem was
> affected somehow and I have not been able to repair it with xfs_repair. 
> xfs_repair immediately freezes when I run it and gives no output.  The same is
> true for xfs_check.  xfs_info gives the following:

Do you get any syslog errors when running repair/check (eg.
device errors?).  They shouldn't just hang... what do they
display?  If nothing at all, strace output would be useful.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan