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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: christian.guggenberger@physik.uni-regensburg.de
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: mount failed after xfs_growfs beyond 16 TB
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:54:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <454B664B.6030701@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061103154448.GA26647@pc51072.physik.uni-regensburg.de>

Christian Guggenberger wrote:
>> xfs_db mojo.... ;)
>>
>> Note - no guarantee this will work - practise on an expendable
>> sparse loopback filessytem image by making a filesystem of slightly less
>> than 16TB then growing it to corrupt it the same way and then fixing it up
>> successfully.
>>
>> Once it's corrupted, unmount and run xfs_db in expert mode.
>> The superblock:
>>
>> blocksize = 4096
>> dblocks = 18446744070056148512
>> ...
>> agblocks = 84976608
>> agcount = 570
>>
>> An AG is ~43.5GB, so 570 AGs is 24.8TB. It's to big, and
>> we will only shrink by whole AGs. Hence we have to correct
>> agcount and dblocks.
> 
> isn't the AG size 'agblocks * blocksize' == ~324 GB here ?
> 
> got further input on a secondray superblock form the colleague:
> looks more reasonable, I'd say. Is there a way to manually recover sb0
> from sb1 ?

you can copy it over field-by-field.... not sure if there's an easier way.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-03 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-02 17:26 mount failed after xfs_growfs beyond 16 TB Christian Guggenberger
2006-11-02 18:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-03  9:32   ` Christian Guggenberger
2006-11-03 12:34     ` David Chinner
2006-11-03 15:44       ` Christian Guggenberger
2006-11-03 15:54         ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2006-11-06 13:41         ` Christian Guggenberger
2006-11-07  8:17         ` David Chinner
2006-11-03  0:41 ` David Chinner
2006-11-03 14:54   ` Eric Sandeen
2006-11-06  1:15     ` Timothy Shimmin
2006-11-06  3:25       ` Eric Sandeen

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