Well, a bit of a misnomer. We pulled the "previous fsck.jfs service log" and reran that.
I used jfs_fscklog to pull the previous journal like so: jfs_fscklog -p -e /dev/mapper/vg0-var -f /tmp/var-previous-journal then jfs_fsck -j /tmp/var-previous-journal /dev/mapper/vg0-var On 3/31/06, Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry I didn't respond to your first email, but I've had a busy > week, and really didn't have any ideas how to help. > > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 17:09 -0700, Mike Garfias wrote: > > It was set to /dev/md0. > > > > We got it fixed. For some reason the original fsck used the wrong > > journal. When we replayed against the previous journal all of the > > data came back. > > I'm confused. I'm not sure what you mean by the wrong journal. Unless > you use an external journal, there is only one journal per file system. > > Going back and reading your first email again. You said it wouldn't get > past grub. Is it possible that /boot was modified right before your > power problem? If very recent changes in /boot or /boot/grub weren't > committed to disk, grub may have been unable to read the config and/or > kernel until after fsck had run against /. I'm surprised running fsck > from the rescue disk didn't help. > > I may never figure out what happened, but I'm glad you were able to > recover it. > > > > > I'd rather like to know why the wrong journal was used. > > I don't understand what you mean by the wrong journal. What exactly did > you do to fix it? > -- > David Kleikamp > IBM Linux Technology Center > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
