XFS Question

[Brett I. Holcomb]

It's a what if question.  It came up when someone pointed out that fsck.xfs 
is a nop essentially!  So I wondered, okay - what do you do if it doesn't 
recover - granted that chance is very slim!

Net Llama! wrote:

> On 04/14/03 16:30, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> Question about XFS.  It's a journeling system and does it's check at
>> mount.
>>  Suppose it finds a problem with the filesystem during the mount so it
>> would - I assume refuse to mount it.  How do you fix it?  fsck.xfs is a
>> do nothing routine since it assumes it's checked at mount?
> 
> ok, scratch my last reply.  after some more digging i discovered that
> what you want is /usr/sbin/xfs_check which is actually a fully
> functional XFS filesystem consistency checker.
> 

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