I have a disk formatted in XFS, it comes from a LaCie NetworkSpace which will not connect to network. So i took put the disk and connected it via USB to my computer. Started Knoppix with bootDVD and tried to access the disk.

Get this error msg:

http://forumbilder.se/F9765/25273066129-3f8a9c1217-z

Tried another way and got this:

http://forumbilder.se/F9765/25614482666-c07521f87e-z

I haven't touched Linux for over ten years, so I'm in big need of advice. Please give me some tips! There are a few files on that disk that I want to save for the future.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=knoppix

Might get a distro that offers XFS support if yours doesn't. Knoppix might allow you to add in support if you are online.

We may need to know more about how you formatted this drive and maybe more about the nas.

Make sure that you have the tools to play with XFS. Package xfsprogs is not installed by default on my minimum install of debian systems. But I tend to use XFS on those. The kernel has the module so it can read them. But when things fail, xfs becomes not bootable until you fsck it (which requires booting another install if xfs is your / partition). And will likely need xfs_repair before you can mount it, which is part of xfsprogs. Just try not to be using versions of those tools that differ by a decade or more relative to the partition creation date.

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Right now Im going to install debian, I will be back with more questions when Im finished.

Thanks for now!

[Edit]
Debian installation failed twice, will try ubuntu instead.

Now I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed in a laptop. Trying to install xfsprogs, but no success. In terminal i write sudo apt-get install xfsprogs and get the following answer:

(translated to english from my language) ifsprogs is already the latest version
Following packets has been installed automatically and are not necessary anymore: kde-l10n-engb kde-l10n-sv
Use 'apt-get remove' to remove them
0 to upgrade, 0 to install, 0 to delete and 43 not to upgrade

I dont understand much of this to be honest. Please help!

#1.
"i(x)fsprogs is already the latest version" What more do you want? It says the latest version available for that distro is installed. You have xfsprogs and most likely the associated tools.

#2.
Ignore KDE comment unless you want to manually remove it. It is meaningless for most users.

Comment: Consider fixing sudo.
So you would sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgrade after install usually just to be sure.

Now you may wish to try to mount that xfs drive if it isn't already mounted.

See tools page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XFS

May have to install gparted or other to peek at this drive for some clues.

Thank you! Works fine now!