Hi,

On one of the Servers, I have a 50TB Virtual Disk which is a RAID6. I use LSI megaRAID.

The server for some reason failed and the Disks were showing foreign and not importable.

After clearing the Foreign Configuration, I see all the disks are online.

After googling, I did recreate the RAID6 in the same order of disks as it was before.

Though RAID was setup, no partitions are seen.

This VD has 10 XFS partitions. Though TestDisk does show the partitions when I analyze, I am not sure it is showing the correct partitions.

If I select one of the partitions and select P on it, it can not list and I get a message it is not supported.

Server is running CentOS 6.4

TestDisk 7.0,

Does it support XFS partitions ?

Regards,

A

I believe that support for XFS in version 7.0 is limited to finding a lost partition, and there is no ability to list or copy files.

One post a while back suggested that photorec could attempt this.

I've never tried it.


Never tried this either. https://www.cnwrecovery.com/html/undelete_xfs.html

Hi,

Thanks for the Replies. Even restoring partition table with XFS is limited ?

Regards,

Athreya

Finding the XFS header and extracting the size from it is all that's necessary to make a partition table entry. That's a lot simpler than understanding the filesystem structure thoroughly enough to recover files. Even the documentation for release 7.1 of TestDisk makes no mention of any support beyond partition recovery.

As for PhotoRec, the most telling comment I found was, "You can try PhotoRec but usually it doesn't work with big files on XFS."

FWIW, I looked at all the git commit messages for TestDisk/PhotoRec since the 7.0 release and found no mention of XFS whatsoever.

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it's virtually impossible

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Since there are no other options to look, please consider this Closed