Xfs-repair Centos — 7
Note - stripe unit (0) and width (0) were copied from a backup superblock.
Her hands were shaking. She mounted the filesystem. xfs-repair centos 7
She typed the command that always made her heart rate spike: Note - stripe unit (0) and width (0)
xfs_repair -L /dev/sdb1 The -L flag is XFS’s last resort. It zeroes out the log, discarding all pending transactions. It’s dangerous—like performing surgery with a fire axe. You lose any operations that hadn’t been written to disk. But without it, the log was a poison pill preventing any repair. the line she needed:
Phase 4 completed. Phase 5. Finally, the line she needed: