* Accidentally deleted an external log, any recovery options?
@ 2011-01-04 4:50 Dean Burrows
2011-01-04 5:26 ` Dave Chinner
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From: Dean Burrows @ 2011-01-04 4:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xfs
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?
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* Re: Accidentally deleted an external log, any recovery options?
2011-01-04 4:50 Accidentally deleted an external log, any recovery options? Dean Burrows
@ 2011-01-04 5:26 ` Dave Chinner
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From: Dave Chinner @ 2011-01-04 5:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dean Burrows; +Cc: xfs
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.
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