inspect-os in RHEL6 returns nothing on img based XFS filesystem
Issue
RHEL6 guestfish is not able to get the OS type in VM with xfs filesystems.
inspect-os failed with
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
guestfsd: error: /dev/sda1 on / (options: 'ro'): mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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