If you can not mount your XFS partition with classical wrong fs type, bad superblock etc. error and you see a message in kernel logs (dmesg) like that: XFS: Filesystem sdb7 has duplicate UUID - can't mount you can still mount the filesystem with nouuid options as below: mount -o nouuid /dev/sdb7 disk-7 But every mount, you have to provide nouuid option. So, for exact solution you have to generate