On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > If I were you, I'd be restoring from backups. You do have backups, > right? I cannot understand why people are so tempted to ask this question. If I would have such a backup, do you think I still would be bugging you? But to answer your question, yes, I had a backup, but it suffered from a hardware failure just 2 days before the actual disk. Regards. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
