How to repair xfs/ext4 filesystem of root/system volume by interrupting initramfs boot in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7?

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Issue

  • The / filesystem is xfs formatted and is corrupted, this isn't letting OS boot appropriately and landing up into dracut# shell.
  • The rescue mode mounting to /mnt/sysimage doesn't help as well, it hangs forever since the mount to /mnt/sysimage goes into D State.
  • The rescue mode directly skip to shell option too doesn't help here since it too tries to mount the / filesystem to /mnt/sysimage somehow.
  • Is there any way to interrupt boot process and repair / filesystem during normal boot?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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