From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Volkan YAZICI <volkan.yazici@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Recovering XFS Partition of Type FAT16
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:53:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E15D68C.6060801@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP7pH7v3oEp6XSxZTz6=RXKSvjLjFAN-ytSQ0Xka80DME+ZHrw@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/7/11 6:32 AM, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:23:55AM +0000, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>>> I have an XFS partition, which is
>>>
>>> 1) Mistakenly quick formatted as FAT16.
>>> 2) At first, I couldn't see in "fdisk -l" that it is set to FAT16,
>>> instead of Linux. Hence, tried to fix it with xfs_recover. xfs_recover
>>> returned 0, and mount operation succeeded; but mounted fs size
>>> appeared as 20GB (despite it is 350GB) and almost every file was
>>> missing.
>>> 3) Later, I set the type of /dev/sda1 (the only partition in /dev/sda)
>>> to Linux, re-run xfs_recover, but nothing changed: Same fs size (20GB)
>>> and same missing files.
>>
>> What is this xfs_recover tool you speak of? I've never heard of it,
>> I can't find any direct links to it in google (only forum posts from
>> years ago about how great it is) so I have no idea what you've done to
>> your filesystem...
>
> Sorry, I was writing that mail from a friend's computer, and
> mistakenly typed xfs_recover, instead of xfs_repair.
>
>> That looks like a newly made 20GB XFS filesystem, not the result of
>> repairing a 350GB filesystem...
>
> Since I formatted it as FAT16 first, it truncated the fs to 20GB. Then
> calling xfs_repair caused the whole XFS partition appear as of size
> 20GB.
It sounds like something changed your partition table as well as your
filesystem. Putting the partition table back in place first probably
would have been the better first step, in retrospect.
I can't tell for sure, though, what you've done (did you reparition?
mkfs? with which tools? what was the xfs_repair output?) so I'm not
sure what to tell you at this point.
-Eric
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-04 10:23 Recovering XFS Partition of Type FAT16 Volkan YAZICI
2011-07-04 12:49 ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-07 11:32 ` Volkan YAZICI
2011-07-07 15:53 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2011-07-07 19:57 ` Volkan YAZICI
2011-07-07 20:15 ` Eric Sandeen
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