> On 13 Oct 2014, at 00:10, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [ please don't top post. ] > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:48:36PM +0000, tom mason wrote: >>> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:20:08 -0400 >>> From: bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx >>> To: tom_in_canada@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> CC: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> Subject: Re: Mount: Structure needs cleaning >>> >>>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 01:43:28AM -0700, tommason wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> First up - my knowledge of linux is pretty sparse - I've used it a few times >>>> before, so please be gentle! >>>> >>>> I've had a neil poulton network space for some time now - it freaked out a >>>> while ago and I managed to rig it up to a Ubuntu liveCD via a SATA dock and >>>> rescue the files. >>>> >>>> This has now happened again - the drive would not get out of a cycle and was >>>> not spinning properly. Bring out the dock and liveCD (this time Knoppix). >>>> All good. This time however as I eagerly copied files to another drive (a >>>> USB powered lacie rugged thing) and left it overnight i woke up to an error. >>>> I was copying around 500GB in a few diffferent chunks. The first error it >>>> reported was I think error 15? mount structure needs cleaning... >> >> >>> Logs? Kernel version? etc. >> >> Hey Brian, >> Apologies! I'm pretty new to all this so you'll have to walk me through it if possible - how do I check the logs? >> >> - Linux ubuntu 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> - xfs_repair version 3.1.9 >> >> ok - so I worked out & tried the xfs_repair command: >> >> root@ubuntu:~# xfs_repair -n /dev/sdc2 >> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... >> superblock read failed, offset 62448377856, size 131072, ag 2, rval -1 >> >> fatal error -- Input/output error > > Which means the filesystem tried to read the offset at 62GB and the > underlying device failed it with EIO. That's not an XFS failure. > What error is there in dmesg when you run that xfs_repair command? What's EIO? 'Error in dmesg' How would I report this info to you? > >>> http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_information_should_I_include_when_reporting_a_problem.3F > > This asks you to post the contents of /proc/partitions, which is > what the kernel thinks are the partition sizes. How do I do this? > >> Yes it's a NAS drive and so I assume had some kind of proprietary >> OS on the other partitions (this is where i might have messed up >> by deleting?!) I'm pretty sure that the drive in bold below (sdc2) >> is the one I'm after which is xfs... > > Ummm, exactly what are you trying to do with this drive/filesystem? > What device did the drive come from in the first place? It's a lacie 'Neil poulton' network space1 1tb NAS drive (see first paragraph of post) - it recently stopped working and was stuck in a 'spin cycle' - it contains my music and video backups. I'm trying to recover the files... Cheers, Tom > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs