Hi, Stan-- Ok, I truly apologize for my ignorance, but I don't know how to dump the contents to a file. Is it something like: xfsdump -J - somefile_xfsdump.txt xfsrestore -J - somefile_xfsrestore.txt ? Best, J. on 12/4/12 7:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner at stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 12/3/2012 4:27 PM, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: > > xfs_info output and this below is all that is needed at this point. > >>> FWIW, this implies that xfsrestore failed. What is the output from >>> xfsrestore? Can you just run xfsdump to a file? > >> Can you tell me how to do that and dmesg? > > The command you posted > > xfsdump -J - /mnt/hr20 | xfsrestore -J - /mnt/fp > > pipes the output from xfsdump into xfsrestore. This error > > xfsdump: WARNING: write to stdio failed: 32 (Broken pipe) > > tells us something broke while piping into xfsrestore, possibly > xfsrestore itself. I believe what Dave is asking you is to xfsdump to a > file, then xfsrestore that file. In two separate operations. This > should tell us more about where the problem is. > > Regarding dmesg information, simply do > > ~$ dmesg > > and copy the output into your email. It should be a few screen fulls > starting with something like: > > Linux version 3.2.6 (root@greer) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8) ) > #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 > > WRT xfs_info: > > ~$ cat /etc/mtab > ... > /dev/sda6 /home xfs rw 0 0 > ... > > ~$ xfs_info /dev/sda6 > meta-data=/dev/sda6 isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=6103694 blks > = sectsz=512 attr=2 > data = bsize=4096 blocks=24414775, imaxpct=25 > = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks > naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 > log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=11921, version=2 > = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0 > realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs