I have a very large xfs file system that is corrupt and there is an IO error in the middle of the file system, xfs_repair crashes. A bit of reading and I have a solution, just thought I would put it out there in case I have forgotten something.
Booting xeon server with 32 bit Ubuntu live CD. All the hard disks on new server in LVM giving me 3.76 TB. I am copying 3.3TB from the other server. First I need to grab a copy of the data across the network, from my new server I access the old server: ssh r...@server 'dd if=/dev/vg1/lv1 conv=noerror,sync' | dd of=/dev/vg/lv01 next I simply repair it xfs_repair /dev/vg/lv01 Mount it. I figure this bit is easy by my reading, Ubuntu handles xfs out of the box (read only so that it cannot be used as a proper server) I am reading from a 32 bit server and booting a Xeon server with 32 bit live CD. This means the NFS should match correctly. Is the above basically correct? Is there any hints that I might need. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
