Xfs-repair Centos | 7

Her stomach dropped. Without -n , the repair would have just crashed, potentially leaving the filesystem in an unmountable, shredded state. She needed the nuclear option.

She typed the command that always made her heart rate spike: xfs-repair centos 7

She took a deep breath. "Time to clean the log." Her stomach dropped

Phase 4 completed. Phase 5. Finally, the line she needed: Her stomach dropped. Without -n

xfs_repair: /dev/sdb1 completed successfully.

"Alright, Jenkins," she muttered. "Let's see what you broke."

She tried a graceful unmount. umount /var/archive hung forever. A soft reboot did nothing but land her in an emergency shell. The filesystem was in a critical state. CentOS 7’s default filesystem, XFS, was known for its robustness, but when it broke, it broke with a vengeance.