[ cc'd the XFS list again - please keep problem triage on the public lists so that more than one person can help you. ] On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 02:53:03PM -0200, Rafael Weingartner wrote: > Today, I let the command xfs_repair /dev/... ran till it finished, I got > the following messages: > > Phase 1 - Find and verify superblock .... > > Could not verify primary superblock - not enough secondary superblocks > > with matching geometry!! The primary superblock dump looked valid, but it it couldn't find matching secondary superblocks from the contents of the primary that it found. > > attempting to find a secondary superblock..... > > ... > > .. > > ... > > ... > > found candidate secondary superblock.... > > unable to verify superblock, continuing.... And it found blocks with the correct superbloc magic numbers, but they don't match the primary superblock that was found. > > found candidate secondary superblock.... > > unable to verify superblock, continuing... > > ... > > ... > > ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Sorry, > > could not find valid secondary superblock > > Exiting now. > > > Should I upgrade the xfsprogs and try to run the xfs_repair again? > Or does that message mean that there is no way of recovering the filesystem? It's still possible to recover, but more info is needed first. Can you get xfs_db to dump the primary and a couple of secondary superblocks? # xfs_db -c "sb 0" -c p -c "sb 2" -c p -c "sb 7" -c p <dev> And post the output? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
