On 10/15/12 9:34 AM, Anshul Kundra wrote: > Suppose in XFS file system I want to corrupt a inode of my choice, > will it be possible using xfs_db > > Xfs_db blockget < inode number > blocktrash < seed value and type of > block > > > In the manuals it is written that it takes a random inodes for the > corruption which it does in actual practice, so can I use any > specific command to corrupt the inode (131 ) As the manual says, blocktrash trashes random metadata blocks (possibly of specified type). You can, however, write whatever you want into various fields of inode 131 via xfs_db, there's just no built-in random method to do that. -Eric > > Thanks & Regards > > Anshul Kundra > > > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs