Problem mounting xfs partition

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I am having problems mounting a xfs partition with a opensuse live cd 11.2 and 13.1, the partition was created with opensuse leap, this is the error

Failure occurred during following action.
Mounting /dev/sda6 to /home/linux/xfstemp

system error code was -3003

/bin/mount -t xfs -oro '/dev/sda6' '/home/linux/xfstemp':
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda6,
missing codepage or helper program, of other error
in some cases useful info is found in syslog -try
dmesg|tail or so

thanks

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Hi
Check the output from journalctl, also it maybe differing kernel versions…


journalctl -f
or
tail -f /var/log/messages (on older releases)

Then run your mount command in another terminal, also make sure there is a space after your -o(ptions) eg -o ro.

It may need a fs check? Have a read here http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ

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May be a version problem. File systems have been known to change over time as they develop.

At the moment the best file systems to use that may need to be shared across multiple aged OS would be ext2/4

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I did the oposite, booted the pc with the opensuse hard drive and I was lucky enough that it booted fine, so I was able to copy the files from the linux drive xfs partition (It is and installation from another pc) to the windows 7 drive of this pc without the need for the live cd.

Note: this linux disk has other partitions ext2 and ext3 and they mounted fine with the live cd, only the xfs partition had problems.

I had been using xfs for about 3 years, but I will have to change of fs because I don’t want this kind of problems in the future. would I have lost all the info if the drive hasn’t booted with the another pc?, I don’t know.

thanks