XFS Drive

[daedalus]

I have no idea if this is the right place to post this but it came up
with I googled XFS so I thought I would give it a shot.

I know NOTHING about Linux; I need to put that out there. I bought a
NAS drive (Buffalo Linkstation Live) and the thing died. Well not
totally, the drive itself is still functional but there is something
wrong with the enclosures board. I know this because when I spoke
with the buffalo people they informed me that the drive is formatted
Linux and if I could find a Linux machine and hook it up I should be
able to access the data. I did just that, I downloaded a copy of
Yellow Dog and installed in on my PPC. When I hooked up the drive it
saw it, but yellow Dog said "It could not mount that drive because I
didn't have to correct permissions". Talking to some people out there
I found out that yellow dog does not support the XFS file format. I
have no idea if that is true because one again, I know nothing about
Linux.

So here is my problem. I need to copy all that data off of the XFS
drive onto an external USB drive so I can send the NAS drive back to
Buffalo. I will be honest with you all; I have no clue what I am
doing. If anyone out there can point me to some software or give me a
check list of things I need to do, I would be forever in your debt.

I tried downloading a copy of....Fedora but when I burned the image
and tried to install it on the PPC the ybooter said something like
file system corrupted.

I am not trying to install anything on the XFS buffalo drive. I am
waiting to hook that up until I can get some operating system working
that can read it.

The box that I am trying to install Linux on it a PPC (Mac G5 x2). Is
it possible to read the drive on a windows box via some 3rd party app?

I am looking for advice from people who are serious. The data on this
XFS is VERY important to me.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. If this is not the correct
place to post this I am sorry. Please let me know where a more
appropriate board is.

[Vicente Werner]

the most probable issue with Yellow Dog Linux is that they don't have a linux kernel compiled with support for XFS filesystems. The fastest way to solve the issue is by installing a linux distribution with XFS support compiled by default (for example openSuse, I have null confidence on fedora on any platform) or if you've a yellow dog installation running already you should try to recompile the kernel with xfs support installed.

 

I can give you more detailed instructions once you've decided what to do.

[Paul Feuer]

I had a similar issue with my iomega nas.

I took the drive and mounted it in an external drive enclosure that I got from J and R (jr.com - search for jr item# ULR ULT33053 - mu drive was an ultra ATA 133). I plopped my drive in that and connected to a machine with ubuntu linux installed.

The drive was unaccessible at first. I downloaded some extra module thru the package downloader to try and read it, and it said it was corrupt and amazingly gave me a command to try and repair it. Because I could see what partition it was because of the size (/dev/sda4), I just plugged that in:

xfs_repair -L -v /dev/sda4

this rebuilt the inode index (I think) and after it ran for about 8 hrs I think, I was able to get at my data. I attached another USB drive (fat32) and just moved it all from one to the other.

Hope that helps.

./paul

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-----Original Message-----
From: daedalus <schw...@prodigy.net>

Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:40:38
To:crossmeta-file-system-drivers <crossmeta-file...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: XFS Drive