On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:48:49PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Martin Richard wrote: > > In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of > > xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell. > > xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really > something else.
I suspect, given the content, this is the XFS filesystem [1]. And, for the record fsck.xfs "do[es] nothing, succesfully" [2]. Checking is usually done online, at mount time and, if that doesn't work, the appropriate tools are xfs_{check,repair}. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS [2] http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fsck.xfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+7.0+wheezy&format=html&locale=en > > Bob >
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