Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-10 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:15:14 -0600 "Paul Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Paul Hartman writes: > > > >> I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first > >> time, not sure if it went through to the li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, >> not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I >> apologize if it is a duplicate). > > I don't think so.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, > not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I > apologize if it is a duplicate). I don't think so. > If anyone has any ideas at all about how to go about fixing/mounting > this, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Dec 2008, at 17:49, Paul Hartman wrote: ... xfs_repair exists, but the man page says it can only be used against clealy unmounted drives... which seems kind of funny. I ran it anyway, in read-only mode, and it was unable to find the primary superblock and started scanning the disk for the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:49:03 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > When I run "less -f /dev/sdf1" i can see amongst the bits all of the > names of my directories and files etc... so I am pretty sure the data > is there and readable, but I can't figure out how to get XFS to go > ahead and mount it so I can c