[NCLUG] XFS, "Can't read superblock"

[Bob Proulx]

Warren Turkal wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > My father uses a Linux box as a fileserver.  The partition on which he
> > stores all the important data uses an XFS filesystem.  This weekend,
> > that filesystem, which comprises one entire hard drive, stopped working.
> 
> Well, can you dd the info off so that you can work with the copy and reduce 
> risk of destroying the original?

+1

Get a dd copy of the original and then work with the image offline.
When I have had disks die they just keep getting worse and worse and
less and less data can be read.  Unfortunately by the time you get
where you say that you are now it may already be too late.

Bob