I had a really rough experience recently with my external hard drive that's formatted with XFS, and I'm worried I might have lost access to it permanently. I want to mount this drive read-only so I can recover my important files without causing more damage. I haven't used the drive in a while, and I'm not sure of its current state.
I prefer to avoid using a Linux virtual machine because I want to interact with the device directly, rather than risk further complications. I'm comfortable with terminal commands, but I need some guidance on what to do exactly. The drive is 1TB, and I'm hesitant to use 'dd' for cloning since it might be too large for my Mac's local storage. I'm particularly interested in checking the status of the logical superblock to see if it's corrupted. Can anyone provide advice on how to approach this, especially using the built-in macOS command line tools? Any tips would be really helpful, no matter how simple!
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I totally get the anxiety around data recovery! First, definitely check the drive's health. Running commands like 'diskutil list' will show you the connected drives. If you're trying macFUSE, remember to install and configure it correctly. But honestly, if you can, trying a Linux setup might be less risky, especially to check the superblock status and recovery options.
While macOS doesn’t natively support XFS, you might want to give macFUSE and fuse-xfs a shot to mount it read-only. Just a heads up though, my experiences with FUSE have been hit-or-miss on macOS, so it might not work perfectly. If it were me, I’d recommend using a Linux VM as it will have better support for XFS, saving you potential headaches down the line.
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