Re: xfs_repair on a 1.5 TiB image has been hanging for about an hour, now

Richard Hartmann
2010-02-12T17:05:19Z

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 18:04, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 17:58, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
>
>> try adding -P
>
> Which leads me to the question if it would be save to just CTRL-C a
> running xfs_repair (or if there is a different graceful shutdown function).

-P Disable prefetching of inode and directory blocks. Use this
option if you find xfs_repair gets stuck and stops proceeding.
Interrupting a stuck xfs_repair is safe.

Well, OK :)

Thanks,
Richard