[ale] bad XFS superblock

[Dow Hurst]

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#xfsmountfail

If xfsrepair fails after three attempts then I believe your hosed.  I 
would definitely post to the XFS mailing list.  Docs seem mighty sparse 
on recovery.  Might read the man page on xfsrepair to see if you have 
any options.  I know any problems with XFS would be important to the XFS 
developers.
Dow


ChangingLINKS.com wrote:

>My Suse 8.2 crashed M$FT style while I was using ymessenger.
>When I tried to I reboot it, it gave an error (forgot the error but it 
>mentioned the filesystem). I tried rebooting several times and then I tried 
>using xfs_repair and xfs_check. Those attempts returned "bad superblock and 
>input/output error." By googling and testing, I came to understand that I 
>have a bad superblock. I tried mounting the HD on another machine - and it 
>would not mount (or even be recognized correcty by YAST2.
>However, the drive did get recognized by the BIOS, and if I use it as the 
>master, grub comes up and it dies right about the time it is trying to load 
>the filesystem.
>
>I could not find anyone mentioning how to "fix" a superblock in XFS. Is it 
>possible for me to repair this filesystem, or am I SOL? The installation had 
>some nice information (bookmarks, history, special software installations) 
>and I would like to recover it if I can. Anyone?
>  
>

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