Re: Recovering filesystem with large number of orphaned inodes?

2014-04-15 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 09:18:30AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 09:34:07PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: I'd like to give the best possible chance to recover data but I don't really feel like having to approve 65534 reconnections. I'd like to use the -y option, but

Re: Recovering filesystem with large number of orphaned inodes?

2014-04-15 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 15 April 2014 02:34, John D. Baker jdba...@mylinuxisp.com wrote: I'd like to give the best possible chance to recover data but I don't really feel like having to approve 65534 reconnections. I'd like to use the -y option, but have fsck exit if it can't attach the orphan file. Then I can

Re: Recovering filesystem with large number of orphaned inodes?

2014-04-14 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:34 PM, John D. Baker jdba...@mylinuxisp.com wrote: I had occasion to deal with a system whose hardware RAID-5 had lost a component and operated in degraded mode for some time. Following a power failure, the machine (a DELL PowerEdge 2550, IIRC) refused to boot from