I have an external WD 1TB hard disk with a XFS file system. It used
to be mounted to my desktop via an e-sata port on the mobo.
It started giving me block read errors while auto mounting and I was
under the impression the HDD was on way to RIP.
It turns out it was the mother board which was on the way to RIP
because the DVI port stopped working 2 days ago.
Anyway, I have hooked up the 1TB device to my temporary desktop via
USB and the kernel is not reporting any error.
However, there are file system errors and it refuses to mount.
Using SystemRescueCD I have tried to repair the FS with the following:
xfs_repair -v -L /dev/sdf1
I see no output on the console (even after letting it run for a couple
of hours) and I am unable to break out of the session (Cntrl-C).
I have also done ddrescue to extract about 150GB of the FS and try to
repair the extracted file - no success.
Would appreciate any pointers / tips to recover the file system.
TIA
-- Arun Khan
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