From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o0THBUMH131992 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:11:30 -0600 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 5A7D61C8E4C7 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sandeen.net (64-131-60-146.usfamily.net [64.131.60.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id TAOaBtuv3hwdRzaU for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:12:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B631704.8080902@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:12:36 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Filesystem corrupted: "Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock" References: <4B63010D.1080608@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Nicolas Stransky Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Nicolas Stransky wrote: > On 1/29/10 10:38 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> xfs_repair needs to be smarter about this; I at least wish it'd say >> -why- the candidate was not valid. >> >> Can you include the whole repair output? Then maybe we can direct >> you to some xfs_db jujitsu to examine the fs. >> >> Trying newer xfsprogs would not be a -bad- idea... >> >> -Eric > > The output is as follows: > > # xfs_repair /dev/sda > Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... > bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!! xfs_db /dev/sda xfs_db> sb 0 xfs_db> p might be interesting to see what's there. -Eric > attempting to find secondary superblock... > ...................... > found candidate secondary superblock... > unable to verify superblock, continuing... > ...................... > found candidate secondary superblock... > unable to verify superblock, continuing... > ...................... > [The previous one repeats hundreds of times over many hours] > ...................... > Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock > Exiting now. > > > I am trying right now xfsprogs 3.1.0 from Debian testing, will see what > it gives... > > Thanks! > NS > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@oss.sgi.com > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs