[TriLUG] XFS Recovery???

[Brian Weaver]

I'm hoping that someone on the list might have some ideas on how my
buddy can recover his Linux system. To the best of my knowledge he is
running Mandrake 10, but it could be 9.x. His primary OS drive (hda1)
appears to be having recovery problems.

Below is the message that I received from my buddy. Any suggestions on
what he should try or additional information that would be useful in
diagnosing the problem?

Thanks

-Weave

----- Forwarded message from /* name removed */ -----

> 
> What does it mean when you boot up a linux box running Mandrake, it
> appears to take a long time so you press "ESC" on the keyboard to see
> the boot details, and the last 2 lines say...? 
>
> XFS mounting filesystem hda1
> starting XFS recovery on filesystem hda1 (dev:hda1)
> 
> What does it mean when it has been there for 9 hours (since about
> 10:30pm Tuesday night)?
> 

----- End forwarded message -----

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