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From: lrhorer on 30 May 2010 23:00
Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> lrhorer put forth on 5/20/2010 6:09 PM:
>>
>> OK, I'm stumped. I was having some problems which were
>> likely related
>> to the old kernel in Debian "Lenny", so I upgraded to "Squeeze" in
>> order to alleviate the issue, which it apparently has. Now, however,
>> I
>> need to fsck the main array on the box, which is formatted as XFS.
>> The
>> xfs-repair utility is not on the upgraded system. (I was forced to
>> do
>> a fresh install of the boot drive.) How can I obtain the XFS file
>> utilities - particularly xfs-repair - under "Squeeze"?
>
> Unless you're seeing XFS errors in your logs or on the console you
> don't
> need to run xfs_check or xfs_repair. Typically these tools are only
> used when an XFS filesytem becomes damaged badly enough that it won't
> mount, or when XFS logs serious errors.
>
> For the most part XFS is self healing but for the most serious errors,
> which
> usually result from defective disk and/or controller hardware. XFS
> journal replay after power outages and kernel panics will either
> delete or zero files and directories that weren't fully written at the
> time of the crash, but the XFS filesystem itself will be fully intact.
>
> What is it that leads you to believe you need to perform a filesystem
> check or repair on your XFS filesystem?

Well, first of all, even if it is not needed now, it may be in the
future. To answer your question, however, it was needed because the
underlying array suffered a catastrophic failure, and has since been
rebuilt. Having rebuilt the array, and knowing that at least some data
had possibly been lost at the block device level, it is at least
prudent to double-check the health of the file system structures.
Indeed, xfs_repair found and repaired some corrupted structures. The
files were extracted and re-written to the drive from storage using
rsync.

The simple answer to my original question was, "xfsprogs". Doing a
synaptic search for "xfs" returns far, far too many results through
which to easily sift, and searching for "xfs_repair" returns none at
all.


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From: Cameron Hutchison on 30 May 2010 23:30
lrhorer <lrhorer(a)satx.rr.com> writes:

>> lrhorer put forth on 5/20/2010 6:09 PM:
>>>
>>> How can I obtain the XFS file
>>> utilities - particularly xfs-repair - under "Squeeze"?

> The simple answer to my original question was, "xfsprogs". Doing a
>synaptic search for "xfs" returns far, far too many results through
>which to easily sift, and searching for "xfs_repair" returns none at
>all.

The meta-answer to your original question is http://packages.debian.org
from which you can search the contents of packages if you know what
file you're looking for. At the bottom of that page is a section titled
"Search the contents of packages".

It's so useful that I have a iceweasel/firefox smart bookmark set up for
it, so I can just type "dpcs xfs_repair" into my address bar and I get
the answer you were looking for (dpcs == debian package content search)


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From: Andrei Popescu on 31 May 2010 02:20
On Mon,31.May.10, 03:20:40, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> lrhorer <lrhorer(a)satx.rr.com> writes:
>
> >> lrhorer put forth on 5/20/2010 6:09 PM:
> >>>
> >>> How can I obtain the XFS file
> >>> utilities - particularly xfs-repair - under "Squeeze"?
>
> > The simple answer to my original question was, "xfsprogs". Doing a
> >synaptic search for "xfs" returns far, far too many results through
> >which to easily sift, and searching for "xfs_repair" returns none at
> >all.
>
> The meta-answer to your original question is http://packages.debian.org
> from which you can search the contents of packages if you know what
> file you're looking for. At the bottom of that page is a section titled
> "Search the contents of packages".
>
> It's so useful that I have a iceweasel/firefox smart bookmark set up for
> it, so I can just type "dpcs xfs_repair" into my address bar and I get
> the answer you were looking for (dpcs == debian package content search)

Or just install apt-file ;)

Regards,
Andrei
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