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From: Nicolas Stransky <nico@stransky.cx>
To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Filesystem corrupted: "Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock"
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:06:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hjv12n$r2o$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B63010D.1080608@sandeen.net>

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 !!!

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-29 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-29 14:42 Filesystem corrupted: "Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock" Nicolas STRANSKY
2010-01-29 15:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-01-29 16:06   ` Nicolas Stransky [this message]
2010-01-29 17:12     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-01-29 17:41       ` Nicolas Stransky
2010-01-29 18:16         ` Eric Sandeen
2010-01-29 19:58           ` Nicolas Stransky
2010-02-01 17:29           ` Nicolas Stransky

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