diff --git a/mount_linux.go b/mount_linux.go
index 2d24af913e4..41f69efe3f0 100644
--- a/mount_linux.go
+++ b/mount_linux.go
@@ -314,33 +314,6 @@ func (mounter *SafeFormatAndMount) checkAndRepairFilesystem(source string) error
 	return nil
 }
 
-// checkAndRepairXfsFilesystem checks and repairs xfs filesystem using command xfs_repair.
-func (mounter *SafeFormatAndMount) checkAndRepairXfsFilesystem(source string) error {
-	klog.V(4).Infof("Checking for issues with xfs_repair on disk: %s", source)
-
-	args := []string{source}
-	checkArgs := []string{"-n", source}
-
-	// check-only using "xfs_repair -n", if the exit status is not 0, perform a "xfs_repair"
-	_, err := mounter.Exec.Command("xfs_repair", checkArgs...).CombinedOutput()
-	if err != nil {
-		if err == utilexec.ErrExecutableNotFound {
-			klog.Warningf("'xfs_repair' not found on system; continuing mount without running 'xfs_repair'.")
-			return nil
-		} else {
-			klog.Warningf("Filesystem corruption was detected for %s, running xfs_repair to repair", source)
-			out, err := mounter.Exec.Command("xfs_repair", args...).CombinedOutput()
-			if err != nil {
-				return NewMountError(HasFilesystemErrors, "'xfs_repair' found errors on device %s but could not correct them: %s\n", source, out)
-			} else {
-				klog.Infof("Device %s has errors which were corrected by xfs_repair.", source)
-				return nil
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 // formatAndMount uses unix utils to format and mount the given disk
 func (mounter *SafeFormatAndMount) formatAndMountSensitive(source string, target string, fstype string, options []string, sensitiveOptions []string) error {
 	readOnly := false
@@ -410,14 +383,7 @@ func (mounter *SafeFormatAndMount) formatAndMountSensitive(source string, target
 
 		if !readOnly {
 			// Run check tools on the disk to fix repairable issues, only do this for formatted volumes requested as rw.
-			var err error
-			switch existingFormat {
-			case "xfs":
-				err = mounter.checkAndRepairXfsFilesystem(source)
-			default:
-				err = mounter.checkAndRepairFilesystem(source)
-			}
-
+			err := mounter.checkAndRepairFilesystem(source)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
diff --git a/safe_format_and_mount_test.go b/safe_format_and_mount_test.go
index 782d3da67e7..38c2c8f5b9f 100644
--- a/safe_format_and_mount_test.go
+++ b/safe_format_and_mount_test.go
@@ -202,44 +202,6 @@ func TestSafeFormatAndMount(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			expErrorType: GetDiskFormatFailed,
 		},
-		{
-			description: "Test that 'xfs_repair' is called only once, no need to repair the filesystem",
-			fstype:      "xfs",
-			execScripts: []ExecArgs{
-				{"blkid", []string{"-p", "-s", "TYPE", "-s", "PTTYPE", "-o", "export", "/dev/foo"}, "DEVNAME=/dev/foo\nTYPE=xfs\n", nil},
-				{"xfs_repair", []string{"-n", "/dev/foo"}, "", nil},
-			},
-		},
-		{
-			description: "Test that 'xfs_repair' is called twice and repair the filesystem",
-			fstype:      "xfs",
-			execScripts: []ExecArgs{
-				{"blkid", []string{"-p", "-s", "TYPE", "-s", "PTTYPE", "-o", "export", "/dev/foo"}, "DEVNAME=/dev/foo\nTYPE=xfs\n", nil},
-				{"xfs_repair", []string{"-n", "/dev/foo"}, "", &testingexec.FakeExitError{Status: 1}},
-				{"xfs_repair", []string{"/dev/foo"}, "\ndone\n", nil},
-			},
-		},
-		{
-			description: "Test that 'xfs_repair' is called twice and repair the filesystem, but mount failed",
-			fstype:      "xfs",
-			mountErrs:   []error{fmt.Errorf("unknown filesystem type '(null)'")},
-			execScripts: []ExecArgs{
-				{"blkid", []string{"-p", "-s", "TYPE", "-s", "PTTYPE", "-o", "export", "/dev/foo"}, "DEVNAME=/dev/foo\nTYPE=xfs\n", nil},
-				{"xfs_repair", []string{"-n", "/dev/foo"}, "", &testingexec.FakeExitError{Status: 1}},
-				{"xfs_repair", []string{"/dev/foo"}, "\ndone\n", nil},
-			},
-			expErrorType: UnknownMountError,
-		},
-		{
-			description: "Test that 'xfs_repair' is called twice but could not repair the filesystem",
-			fstype:      "xfs",
-			execScripts: []ExecArgs{
-				{"blkid", []string{"-p", "-s", "TYPE", "-s", "PTTYPE", "-o", "export", "/dev/foo"}, "DEVNAME=/dev/foo\nTYPE=xfs\n", nil},
-				{"xfs_repair", []string{"-n", "/dev/foo"}, "", &testingexec.FakeExitError{Status: 1}},
-				{"xfs_repair", []string{"/dev/foo"}, "\nAn error occurred\n", &testingexec.FakeExitError{Status: 1}},
-			},
-			expErrorType: HasFilesystemErrors,
-		},
 		{
 			description:           "Test that 'blkid' is called and confirms unformatted disk, format fails with sensitive options",
 			fstype:                "ext4",