On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I was struggling to boot an ISO image from a USB disk, hence I suspect that I had probably set the type of the host machine partition (/dev/sda1) to FAT16 with fdisk, instead of USB disk partition (/dev/sdb1). Then in the next boot, Linux doesn't come up and complained about XFS issues. Hence I rebooted the machine and repaired the fs with xfs_repair. This time partition is mounted properly but a significant portion of the disk content is missing. Then in the fdisk -l output I realized that /dev/sda1 is set to FAT16. (Isn't it strange that I can xfs_repair and mount a partition of type FAT16?) Later I set the type of /dev/sda1 to Linux, but nothing changed. I called xfs_repair again and tried mounting again, no luck: same fs size (20GB), same missing contents. For the xfs_repair output... Honestly, I don't remember and I don't think I can reproduce the situation. Best. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
