Hi Edmund, On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:12:59PM +0000, Scott, Edmund J @ SSG - Link wrote: > We have several older SGI hard drives we are trying to recover data > from. However, since these drives came from an SGI Onyx running IRIX > 6.2, it uses the older version 1 XFS file system. I can see the SCSI > drive on my Linux box (CentOS 5.11) and I know data is on the drive, I > can list out some of the info using dd, cpio or strings, but cannot > copy the data off of it. I have tried using xfs_copy to a version 2 > XFS partition, but it just converts the target partition to version 1, > which I cannot mount. I have also looked at xfs_dump/restore, > but those require mounted filesystems. > > Is there any script or program or option I can use to copy the data > off of the un-mounted SGI XFS partition. I'm guessing some combination > of the cpio and dd, but I have not figured out the right combination > yet. Apparently CentOS 5.11 should be a 2.6.18 kernel. It looks like it should still have support for version 1, so I'm surprised you're having trouble. Could you provide a little more information? 1) dmesg output when you try to mount the filesystem 2) xfs_info output, e.g. xfs_info /dev/sda5 3) hexdump of the superblock, e.g. dd if=/dev/sda5 count=1 | hexdump -C Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
