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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: David Bernick <dbernick@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_repair problem.
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:20:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <494EC13E.2060303@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bcfcfff0812211408u6e08bf81r1c19ab5ba938b0e2@mail.gmail.com>

David Bernick wrote:
> So I ran an xfs_repair -v on my filesystem. While the FS was originally
> 12T and 95% full. I ran xfs_repair and it throw many "out of space
> errors" when it was running. That makes some sense.
>  
> I expanded it with a new device with xfs_grow. It seems to work, because
> the disk is now bigger when I mount it.

I should have pointed out; growing less than 2T at a time is safe, even
with that bug ...

> When I ran xfs_repair on that (latest version), it reverts back to the
> original size. Is there anything I need to do to make the xfs_growfs
> permanent?

No, it should just work.  But 2T at a time on that older code w/ teh bug.

> If I can make the XFS partition bigger, I can likely make it work
> because then it won't run out of space! But the partition, despite
> saying its "bigger" here, doesn't seem to "take" after the xfs_repair.
> Any ideas?

Add a terabyte at a time :)

(or backport that patch...)

-Eric

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-21 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-21 15:03 xfs_repair problem David Bernick
2008-12-21 15:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-21 16:52   ` David Bernick
2008-12-21 17:01     ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-21 17:07       ` David Bernick
2008-12-21 22:08       ` David Bernick
2008-12-21 22:14         ` David Bernick
2008-12-21 22:20         ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-12-21 17:12     ` Eric Sandeen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-06 16:10 XFS_Repair PRoblem Kingghost
2007-12-06 21:06 ` David Chinner
2007-12-07  0:51   ` Kingghost

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