Ah, ok. I actually love the unix whenever I have a chance to play with it. But I am inexperienced :) I'll send the output a bit later. Best, J. On Dec 22, 2012, at 3:46 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/21/2012 4:06 PM, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: >> Sorry, don't you want me to perform the repair and then try the restore again? If I use -n seems like that wouldn't actually repair the volume? > > It's called a "dry run" Jeffrey. It will tell you what problems it > finds but without attempting to fix them. Sometimes it's better to see > what is broken and in what way BEFORE actually attempting to fix it, as > the fixes may sometimes include unintended consequences. > > What we're doing here is looking both ways twice before crossing the > street, instead of stepping into traffic without looking. > > So my advice is to run with "-n" and post the output of the command so > we (mostly Dave) can see what's wrong before you actually make the > repairs. He may tell you to go ahead and run the destructive repair, or > depending on what he sees he may have you perform some other tasks > before that. > > You had no experience with XFS before embarking on this DVR drive > migration, and little to no experience with *nix. You are unable to > digest the information in the man pages, stumbling with the commands we > give you, etc. Thus it makes a lot of sense to play it safe with > everything you do here. > > -- > Stan > >> On Dec 21, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On 12/21/2012 9:32 AM, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: >>> >>>> xfs_repair /dev/sda2 >>>> xfs_repair: /dev/sda2 contains a mounted filesystem >>>> >>>> xfs_repair /dev/sda3 >>>> xfs_repair: cannot open /dev/sda3: Device or resource busy >>> >>> ~$ man xfs_repair >>> >>> ... the filesystem to be repaired must be unmounted ... >>> >>> Note the "-r" option and the "-n" option. The former specifies the >>> realtime device (partition) and the latter allows you to do a non >>> destructive repair, i.e. a "check", on a mounted filesystem. Probably a >>> good idea at this point. >>> >>> So you might try something like: >>> >>> ~$ xfs_repair -n -r /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 >>> >>> -- >>> Stan >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xfs mailing list >>> xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xfs mailing list >> xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
