Questions tagged [xfs]
XFS is an open source file system for Linux.
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Is LVM broken or xfs filesystem dead?
As we say all too often, never prod on a Friday ... But an admin on my team wanted to expand a lv, so he broke the whole system.
I've managed to remount the disk and the group volume, and now I'm ...
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linux + wipe a signature from a device not succeeded
we have the following file system.
from lsblk -f
sdb LVM2_member uMrU0b-6F3l-M9Ue-LPsf-kd6n-5l4m-WfxaRQ
└─DB_vg-DB_lv xfs a800d759-c8c7-4e7e-86d5-3d6a06123465
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How to repair a XFS filesystem with a dirty log?
I had a server crash while its RAID array was running in a degraded state and now the XFS file system is corrupted. I have read up on how to repair the filesystem but most things I have tried have ...
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Partition keeps getting corrupted. How to prevent or boot anyway?
I am running RHEL7, and my audit log partition randomly (not often, but often enough to annoy me) gets corrupted, preventing me from booting. How can I either prevent the partition from being ...
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Is it worth to defragment XFS on SSD (many files)?
I have quite old mail server (CentOS 6) of 4+ Tb mail in maildirs (so you may imagine numbe of files). It is VM (VMware 7) on SSD storage.
I wonder if I should care for FS fragmentation at all? I can ...
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Make files truly immutable
I'm currently in the works of adding a third back-up that is Immutable. This all works fine from Veeam > Linux Ubuntu with XFS on a scsi disk. The files are locked for the days that is set in Veeam....
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xfs acl not preserved after reboot
I'm adding a new xfs partition (/home) to a centos 7 server that has ext3 filesystem.
Old /home is ext3.
After mounting the new partition, I copied the info in the old home to the new home with rsync:...
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How to set quota per directory/sub-directory in LInux
At the moment I use Oracle VM on a local environment, but the final intention is to utilize it in the server.
Filesystem type is xfs and the OS of VM is Ubuntu but if needed I can install any other ...
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Cant mount previously created XFS file system in Debian
I am trying to mount a hard drive that has been previously used in another device that had the drive formatted as XFS. I have tried to research the error, but I cant find any solution to the exact ...
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Disk layout: First 512 bytes are intentionally not used by filesystem(ext, xfs, brtfs) and volume management(lvm,zfs,brtfs), is this a design rule?
I suspect that all modern filesystem(ext, xfs, brtfs..) and volume management(lvm, zfs, brtfs...) intentionally avoid using at least first 512 bytes of the disk or partition,
is this true? I know it ...
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CENTOS 7.2 + installing docker on OS with XFS file system
We have 12 machines with CentOS 7 servers ( VM servers ) where the root file system is XFS (created with ftype=0, default CentOS setting at the time the system was installed).
And we want to install ...
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why this is bad to use XFS file-system without d_type support , regarding to docker
from docker documentation we can see the following https://docs.docker.com/storage/storagedriver/overlayfs-driver/#prerequisites
Warning: Running on XFS without d_type support now causes Docker to ...
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How to extend Linux non root partition
There was 3TB EBS volume attached to an ec2 instance. I have increased the volume to 4TB.
I am trying to extending the partition size.
#lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1 ...
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Corrupt XFS after power failure in Virtual Machine
One of our servers failed and when it came back to life, one of the hosted VMs [CentOS 7] had issues with XFS.
There are 3 volumes, root, /swap and /home, and I was able to xfs_repair the root volume,...
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changing sunit and swidth in XFS without data loss
we have a medium sized scientific cluster with 32 compute nodes. The head node serves a 54TB storage that is RAID-6. It is consisted of 22 3TB HDDs (2 Parity units) and stripe size of 256K. The NFS is ...
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