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Gastrognome

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From: Montreal, QC

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 10

xfs partition will not mount

I have an xfs partion for general storage that, after re-installing arch and windows, is marked as unknown in parted.
Is anyone aware of any file recovery programs for xfs or if there is a non-destructive way to fix this partition?

Thanks in advance,

gastro

Last edited by Gastrognome (2007-04-22 15:21:27)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: xfs partition will not mount

Are you sure it doesn't mount? I think I saw xfs partition marked as  unknown somewhere lately, but it worked properly nevetheless.

xfs_repair (part of xfsprogs package) is the tool for repairing xfs filesystems.

Last edited by lucke (2007-04-22 15:50:36)

Gastrognome

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From: Montreal, QC

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 10

Re: xfs partition will not mount

thanks for the reply.

xfs_repair just says that I have a bad primary superblock and then it tries to find the secondary one.
It does this until I manually stop the process ( after about 30 mins ).

xfs_check says I have a bad magic number and gives up.

do you know if there is any way I can recover my files?

George_K

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From: Russie, Saint-Pétersbourg

Registered: 2006-09-27

Posts: 75

Re: xfs partition will not mount

do you know if there is any way I can recover my files?

Before trying this try to recover your partition with testdisk (pacman -S testdisk)