XFS : Corruption detected. Unmount and run xfs_repair

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • XFS filesystem encountered some corruption and filesystem repair is recommended.

    Sep  1 12:42:12 server kernel: XFS (dm-3): Corruption detected. Unmount and run xfs_repair

  • RHEL 8 /var/log/messages:

    2023-04-18T12:27:26-04:00 [kern.alert] kernel: XFS (dm-1): Metadata corruption detected at xfs_dinode_verify.part.8+0x155/0x690 [xfs], inode 0xa03d21 dinode
2023-04-18T12:27:26-04:00 [kern.alert] kernel: XFS (dm-1): Unmount and run xfs_repair

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with Scalable Filesystem Add-On
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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