From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o0TG68YC128321 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:06:08 -0600 Received: from lo.gmane.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4F61B1363101 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id FYbZDtlcUcFLzpkZ for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NatNH-0004Ew-PK for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:07:11 +0100 Received: from vm15c-113.broadinstitute.org ([69.173.114.122]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:07:11 +0100 Received: from nico by vm15c-113.broadinstitute.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:07:11 +0100 From: Nicolas Stransky Subject: Re: Filesystem corrupted: "Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock" Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:06:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B63010D.1080608@sandeen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B63010D.1080608@sandeen.net> 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: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs