[plug] To any XFS experts out there ... help save my root partition!

[Brinley Ang]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>G'day plug,
>
>About 20 minutes ago, my Linux box crashed hard.  When I rebooted, I was
>rather disappointed to find that it kernel panics on boot, and will no
>longer mount its root FS. The final page of error messages were captured on
>digital camera:
>http://patrick.wattle.id.au/crash.jpg
>
>Does anyone here know how to rescue an XFS partition?
>
>In case it matters, the kernel is 2.4.19-gentoo-r7, and the partition in
>question is a rougly 40GB XFS containing everything but /boot.  (What is it
>they say about eggs and baskets?) I tried rebooting a couple of times, but
>it gives exactly the same messages.
>
>CP.
>Trying not to panic.
>
>PS. Apologies for sending this using Outlook, as it'll no doubt turn this
>message into some ugly HTML concoction, but the present circumstances make
>it rather difficult for me to use my normal mail client.
>
>
>
Hello,
if all u need to save is data
why dont u connect this hd as a pri slave, second master etc
boot off another system
mount -t xfs /dev/hdc1
and download yor data
cheers