Hi :) On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:10 PM Dave Chinner wrote > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:26:35PM +0100, Rafa Grim�n wrote: > > Hi all :) > > > > My /home is on an XFS partition all to it's own. The other day the lights > > went out and when I rebooted, there's an empty directory that can't be > > erased. This directory is a subdirectory in ~/.kde4/ > > Is your system using barriers (i.e. mounting with nobarrier option, > or hardware that doesn't support FUA)? Directory corruption like > this on power failure is a classic sign of a voltile drive cache > being lost on power failure. Nope, no barriers. It's a single internal SATA drive. It's my personal PC at home so no fancy hardware :( > The output of dmesg from a system boot will tell us what hardware > you have... > > > The funny thing about this is that I can rename the directory, but I > > can't delete it: > > > > [root@mine albumcovers]# ls > > . .. cache > > > > [root@mine albumcovers]# ls -lah cache/ > > total 0 > > drwx------ 1 rafa users 6 Jan 10 02:23 . > > drwx------ 3 rafa users 18 Jan 10 02:23 .. > > ^^^ > > It's link count is 3, meaning that it thinks that there is an entry > in the directory. You need to run xfs_repair to fix it (and whatever > else is broken). Thanks Dave and Markus. The thing is that when the lights came back on I ran an xfs_check first and got nothing (no errors). When I got the error mentioned above, I reran an xfs_check (no errors) and an xfs_repair but nothing seemed to be wrong. Yup, partition was unmounted ;) Maybe I messed up typing the command or go figure, it was too late. That'll teach me to go to sleep at a decent time of the night ;) In any case, I just wanted to know if maybe xfs_db or some other tool could come in handy. Can't do any more checks since I repartitioned my drive and reorganized my storage. Had backups, no data loss so it was more of a curiosity. Backups: can't live without them ;) Thanks for your time !! Rafa _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
