I needed to restore something from my backups, an external hard disk that is kept separately, always disconnected until I really need it. But the file system refused to be mounted: "structure needs cleaning," it said. I googled and didn't find much hope about it. I followed what little advice I found: I ran xfs_repair and it didn't work. So I ran it again with -L and it worked, but the software itself warned me that some files could not be recovered. I'll never know which ones. I always liked XFS and thought those dreaded days of file system corruption and lost files were far behind. So my only question is: Why does that happen? The disk is not even used 99% of the time. How does an XFS file system go belly up just like that? TIA -- Luciano ES >>
