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From: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
To: christian gattermair <christian.gattermair@mci.edu>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_check - out of memory | xfs_repair - superblock error reading
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:41:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <450EB025.5020007@oss.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609181519.18448.christian.gattermair@mci.edu>

christian gattermair wrote:

> xfs_repair works but can not find any superblock. any hints?
> 
> xfs_repair /dev/sdb1
> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> error reading superblock 11 -- seek to offset 1134332153856 failed
> couldn't verify primary superblock - bad magic number !!!
> 
> attempting to find secondary superblock...
> ...
> ...
> ..............found candidate secondary superblock...
> error reading superblock 11 -- seek to offset 1134332153856 failed

That's about a terabyte into your 3t fs, but you can't seek to it?  Any kernel 
messages when this happens?  What does /proc/partitions and/or parted  say about 
the size of /dev/sdb1?  Seems like maybe your device itself is not as expected.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-18 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-18 13:19 xfs_check - out of memory | xfs_repair - superblock error reading christian gattermair
2006-09-18 14:41 ` linux-xfs [this message]
2006-09-19 10:03   ` christian gattermair
2006-09-19 15:02     ` Eric Sandeen
2006-09-20 15:35       ` christian gattermair
2006-09-18 22:23 ` David Chinner
2006-09-18 22:56   ` Stephan Jansen
2006-09-19  0:33     ` Barry Naujok
2006-09-19  7:56     ` Frank Hellmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-19 13:19 christian gattermair

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