On Thursday 22 July 2010 05:14:08 David Relson wrote: > /var/log/messages has indicated a slew of XFS problems on an external > USB hard drive (see attachment). These look pretty fatal. Anybody > think the file system is recoverable?
You'll have to try to recover it, to see if it is possible: xfs is vulnerable to power interruptions, so a faulty USB cable can cause corruption. I haven't had a corrupted xfs system for years now, so I put initial experiences down to early (buggy) versions of the drivers. In my case, I was not able to recover and I had to reformat and start again. After a couple of early mortality cases the fs in question carried on for 4 years without a single problem. Try xfs_check and xfs_repair with the drive unmounted, but first use xfs_dump/restore or dd to make a back up just in case. > Also, palimpsest is reporting (graphically) that my external hard drive is > about to die. Can I save it's report to a text file??? Sorry, can't help with that because I'm not familiar with the application. You could use sys-apps/smartmontools if you want a console application that you can copy and paste from. -- Regards, Mick
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