You could try downloading an ISO of knoppix, and boot from that with the drive installed, and use the xfs_repair tools from there without having to install other tools on the drive in question. On 11/23/2021 8:45 AM, Fred wrote: > I'm attempting to extract data from a HD that has a bunch of linux-raid > partitions, including one large one with data I need to save off the disk. > > I actually have two drives like that (both not from the same RAID pair), > and one of them I was successful in creating a MD device so I could mount > it RO and copy off a ton of data. > > the second one fails to mount, saying the XFS filesystem is corrupted. > Attempting to run XFS_repair I get a message that the filesystem is XFS-1 > and I need an older version of XFS tools to do it. > > I'm running Centos-7 with whatever version of XFS tools comes with it, > according to 'yum list installed' it appears to be xfsprogs 4.5.0-22.el7. > > I don't particularly want to install another, older, version of xfsprogs on > this system. can anyone suggest any other way to gain access to this disk > partition? > > Thanks in advance! > > Fred > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Christopher Wensink IS Administrator Five Star Plastics, Inc 1339 Continental Drive Eau Claire, WI 54701 Office: 715-831-1682 Mobile: 715-563-3112 Fax: 715-831-6075 cwensink at five-star-plastics.com www.five-star-plastics.com