> -----Original Message----- > From: Randy Kelsoe [mailto:randykel@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 10:00 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: recommending reiserfs? > > > 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. ;-) Sorry.. Sorry.. to cause such confusion. I used xf_repair.. (man xfs and i got that) So.. I should have tried xfs_check instead ah.. Okay.. now I know. Fortunately, it wasn't anything I couldn't get back. It was just the GKrellm programmer's manual. Something I can re-DL again.
