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From: "Darius S. Naqvi" <dnaqvi@datagardens.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is My Data DESTROYED?!
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:38:07 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910231744410.3525@darius> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE22E28.207@tmr.com>

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> adfas asd wrote:
>> I can't find anything about a dry-run or test option in the man page for 
>> mkfs.jfs .
>> 
>
> You want fsck (check my filesystem) not mkfs (blow away all I have and create 
> a new empty filesystem).

I think he wants to know where the mkfs put the backup superblocks
when the filesystem was made originally.  If you know where the backup
superblocks are, you can tell mount to use one of them.  This is one way to recover from a corrupt superblock.

The way I've done this in the past was to issue mkfs with a flag (-n,
I think) that meant, "don't make the filesystem, just tell me what you
would do".  One of the thing that mkfs (actually, this was newfs on
SunOS 4.1.x, which constructs a mkfs command for you) spits out on
stdout is the list of backup superblocks.

-- 
Darius S. Naqvi
dnaqvi@datagardens.com
http://www.datagardens.com

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <70ed7c3e0910221912h70b33ca0m3df9eedd9a54c459@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-23  2:18 ` Is My Data DESTROYED?! adfas asd
2009-10-23  2:43   ` Majed B.
2009-10-23  2:59     ` adfas asd
2009-10-23  3:14       ` Majed B.
2009-10-23 19:24         ` adfas asd
2009-10-23 23:07           ` NeilBrown
2009-10-23 23:25             ` adfas asd
2009-10-23 23:39               ` Majed B.
2009-10-24  4:37               ` NeilBrown
2009-10-25  0:54       ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-23 22:37   ` Bill Davidsen
2009-10-23 22:41     ` adfas asd
2009-10-24  9:02   ` Luca Berra
2009-10-23  2:30 ` adfas asd
2009-10-23 22:28   ` Bill Davidsen
2009-10-26 15:38     ` Darius S. Naqvi [this message]
2009-10-27 21:08 adfas asd
2009-10-27 21:11 ` John Robinson
2009-10-27 21:22   ` adfas asd
2009-10-27 21:31     ` Christian Pernegger
2009-10-27 21:56       ` adfas asd
2009-10-28  3:14       ` Guy Watkins
     [not found] <1256656849.15137.126.camel@poledra.romunt.nl>
2009-10-27 20:31 ` adfas asd
2009-10-27 20:39   ` Ryan Wagoner
2009-10-27 21:00     ` Christian Pernegger
2009-10-28  0:39       ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-28  2:57         ` Rudy Zijlstra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-26 12:56 adfas asd
2009-10-26 18:21 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-10-27 14:32   ` adfas asd
2009-10-27 14:36     ` Gabor Gombas
2009-10-27 14:40       ` adfas asd
2009-10-27 18:22         ` Ryan Wagoner
2009-10-28  9:50           ` Lars Schimmer
2009-10-27 20:45     ` Bill Davidsen
2009-10-27 20:53       ` adfas asd
2009-10-27 21:00         ` Ryan Wagoner
2009-10-27 21:05           ` adfas asd
     [not found] <70ed7c3e0910221840o795a61b9u77774725386868e2@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-23  2:04 ` adfas asd
2009-10-23 20:32   ` Billy Crook
2009-10-23 20:46     ` Christian Pernegger
2009-10-23 20:57       ` Mattias Wadenstein
2009-10-23 21:44         ` Billy Crook
2009-10-23 22:00           ` adfas asd
2009-10-23 22:46             ` Billy Crook
2009-10-23 22:49               ` adfas asd
2009-10-23 23:54             ` berk walker
2009-10-24  0:13               ` berk walker
2009-10-25  0:22           ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-23 21:55         ` adfas asd
2009-10-23 22:36           ` Guy Watkins
2009-10-23 23:05           ` Bill Davidsen
2009-10-23 23:20             ` adfas asd
2009-10-23 23:20             ` NeilBrown
2009-10-23 23:25             ` Ben DJ
2009-10-24  3:39               ` Bill Davidsen
2009-10-24 12:01                 ` adfas asd
2009-10-24 14:59                   ` Christopher Chen
2009-10-25  1:52                     ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-25  2:03                       ` Christopher Chen
2009-10-25  2:30                         ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-25  5:26                           ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-10-25  5:41                             ` Guy Watkins
2009-10-25  6:21                               ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2009-10-25 22:55                                 ` Guy Watkins
2009-10-26  1:36                                   ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-26  2:40                                     ` Guy Watkins
2009-10-26  7:32                                       ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2009-10-26 18:14                                         ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-10-26 23:14                                           ` John Robinson
2009-10-27  2:50                                           ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-27  3:15                                             ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-10-27 14:37                                               ` adfas asd
2009-11-02 22:53                                                 ` NiftyFedora Mitch
2009-10-26 23:21                                       ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-25  6:15                             ` Christopher Chen
2009-10-25 13:06                             ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-25 12:46                     ` adfas asd
2009-10-25 13:38                       ` Gabor Gombas
2009-10-25 15:47                         ` adfas asd
2009-10-25 18:12                           ` Christopher Chen
2009-10-25 18:33                           ` Gabor Gombas
2009-10-25 14:16                       ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-25 16:06                         ` adfas asd
2009-10-25 16:58                           ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-10-26  0:55                           ` Doug Ledford
2009-10-26 12:22                             ` adfas asd
2009-10-25 16:49                       ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-10-25  1:28             ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-23 23:49         ` berk walker
2009-10-25  1:36           ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-25  1:50             ` Christopher Chen
2009-10-25  2:20               ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-10-23  1:36 adfas asd

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