John Thompson wrote:
You should never run fsck on an XFS filesystem. XFS has xfs_repair,
which will try and repair corruption.
Running fsck on an xfs filesystem shouldn't cause any problems. fsck
will simply call fsck.xfs, which is functionally identical to the "true"
program (ie, "do nothing, successfully"). See "man fsck.xfs" for
details.
:-)
So what's the point? According to the original poster (Ow), he ran fsck
and it deleted a directory. It sounds like it DID do something;
something negative. If you have a problem with an XFS filesys, the
correct tool is xfs_repair. There is also xfs_check, which only checks
for problems, and takes longer than xfs_repair, which fixes the
problem. ;-)
