Please include xfsprogs in your next builds.
A friend backs up to his external drive, which is formatted as XFS.
He had some problems and I had to fix his drive on another Linux OS with XFS programs.
Even though Endless OS mounts XFS drives fine, there are no tools for repair, etc. XFS partitions on Endless OS.
Thanks
He may be able to install xfsprogs in a Toolbox container:
though I am not sure those tools will be able to access the disk devices from within in the container. He might be able to work around that by adjusting the permissions on the block device.
Another option is to run eos-dev-unlock as root, which allows temporarily installing Debian packages on the host system using apt (which are erased after a reboot). I cannot find any documentation for this tool but it is a wrapper around ostree admin unlock. This is a development/testing tool rather than something to rely on long-term.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I tried running the tools on a distrobox, but as you said, it can’t access the USB devices. No matter what permissions are set.
I think it would be a good idea to include the tools in future builds of EndlessOS, because they are really small and don’t take up much space. I personally prefer BTRFS for my backups, but some people prefer EXT4 and XFS.
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