From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Dean Burrows <dkburrows@yahoo.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Accidentally deleted an external log, any recovery options?
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:26:38 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110104052637.GJ15179@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41292.59911.qm@web31912.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:50:32PM -0800, Dean Burrows wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I was trying a different distro and in doing so deleted a partition that held an
> xfs external log. Now I can't mount or repair the drive that was using that
> external log. Is there a way to get the data off, or to create an internal log
> without losing the data?
Just create a new partition for the external log, zero it, and tell
XFS to use that. You'll have lost any metadata that was in the log,
so once you have a new external log run xfs_repair -n to check that
everything is consistent. If it isn't, then back up everything you
can and run repair for real to fix whatever problems there are.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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2011-01-04 4:50 Accidentally deleted an external log, any recovery options? Dean Burrows
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