Re: mount XFS partition fail after repair when uquota and gquota are used

Keith Keller
2013-03-18T21:49:51Z

On 2013-03-18, Guillaume Anciaux <guillaume.anciaux@epfl.ch> wrote:
> I wish I could do this but the result of "meta_dump /dev/sdb1" for the
> partition containing 6.9T of data is promising to be quite large. Are
> there special options I should use to extract only the information that
> you would need to investigate my problem ?

The actual output of xfs_metadump should be quite small even for a
multiterabyte filesystem. In 2011 I did a metadump of an 11TB
filesystem, and the result was a 7GB file. You might not want to post
that to a mailing list, of course, but it should still be easier to
schlepp around if needed.

--keith

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