On 7/7/11 6:32 AM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > 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. It sounds like something changed your partition table as well as your filesystem. Putting the partition table back in place first probably would have been the better first step, in retrospect. I can't tell for sure, though, what you've done (did you reparition? mkfs? with which tools? what was the xfs_repair output?) so I'm not sure what to tell you at this point. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
