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XFS is a file system originally for SGI's IRIX OS, but is now available for Linux. It is known for handling large files and large file systems well, one of the few Linux file systems that can handle partitions over 16.8TB.

XFS is a file system originally for SGI's IRIX OS, but is now available for Linux. It is known for handling large files and large file systems well, one of the few Linux file systems that can handle partitions over 16.8TB.

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I can't mount with mount -a for error wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock but I can mount manually

I usually use UUID to mount my devices, because I use a lot of external ones and so I control it better. But when I want to mount partitions formatted with XFS I have problems Generally this works for me UUID=8aa6c0d2-c18e-4606-b1da-f5f1f7617f00…
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XFS only using first allocation group despite inode64 mount option

Background: we've been seeing incredibly slow performance allocating files, on a system that creates many small files on a 25T disk. We found from http://xfs.9218.n7.nabble.com/1B-files-slow-file-creation-only-AG0-used-td1606.html that indeed it…
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How to cleanly kill a stuck docker service?

Working with a Centos7 with 3.10 kernel, docker 19.03.12. Eventually, one of the docker images got full and wrote the entire /var/ mount to 100%, crashing both the docker service and the running containers. Now there are 2 zombie process left that I…
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I can mount a samba share from windows and see what it holds but cannot create files or directories

[Newbie warning! this is my first time setting up Samba. I'm almost there but...] Server is running Centos 8, Samba V4.10.4 Shared filesystem is xfs, I have enabled extended attributes and tested that so it is working. I have also tested samba's…
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Organizing millions of files in ftp with btrfs file system

I have FTP that should handle about 1 million files if not more. file sizes are variable between 1MB to 100Mb but the have average of 30MB. We have about 1000 resources and hundreds of thousand site users which we keep their record. Therefore I…
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extending a LVM partition > 2TB on Fedora 31 to use all unallocated disk space

We have a Dell R420 with the Perc H710 Mini that was configured with 3 1TB drives in a RAID 5. I added another 1TB drive and thanks to a little help from the Dell discussion board, the RAID 5 reconfigured correctly and now has 2.47 TiB. I used the…
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repair file system by edit the fstab file

is it possible to run xfs repair by re-edit the fstab file? /dev/mapper/vg-linux_root / xfs defaults 0 0 UUID=7de1dc5c-b605-4a6f-bdf1-f1e869f6ffb9 /boot xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-linux_var /var …
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After reboot of CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)server ,it stopped xfs support

After reboot of CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)server ,it stopped xfs support and throws below error mount: unknown filesystem type 'xfs' #lsmod | grep xfs is not showing anything and #modprobe xfs is also not working . #find…
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mkfs + xfs + what is the right mkfs cli in order to create xfs file-system on huge disk

We need to create xfs file-system on kafka disk The special thing about kafka disk is the disk size kafka disk have 20TB size in our case I not sure about the following mkfs , but I need advice to understand if the following cli , is good enough to…
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google cloud resize partition

New Cloud Compute VM instance with the Centos 7 image. Even though I picked 100GB disk size the Centos image had 10GB boot disk. I have tried extending the /dev/sda2 to utilize the unused space but so far I am not successful with xfs_growfs / …
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linux filesytem options for vmware esxi nfs datastore

I want to use linux based NFS datatstore in vmware esxi 6.5 .Which linux file system is best suited for this prurpose ? I tried xfs,but it has defrangementation issue mentioned here…
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How can I check if I have these XFS metadata scalability improvements on CentOS6?

We seem to be having trouble with some metadata update performance on CentOS6, so I am checking to see if we have the improvements mentioned in this presentation by Dave Chinner: http://xfs.org/images/d/d1/Xfs-scalability-lca2012.pdf It mentions…
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Give permission to folder and subfolders to multiple users with ability to overwrite files

I know the question is pretty common, but I not seems to find good answer. Setup is following - there is webserver and there is a folder where Apache (user www-data) create directories and upload / delete files. The webmaster may decide to add or…
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zsh: locking failed for /home/centos/.zsh_history: no space left on device: reading anyway

I am using CentOS image from AWS EC2, I have root volume attached which is 150 GB and I see below error message after I login zsh: locking failed for /home/centos/.zsh_history: no space left on device: reading anyway In, AWS EC2 I can increase the…
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Best practices for filesystem stored in a file

For GDPR purposes, I will need to setup encrypted filesystem on my server. My server comes with single partition formatted as XFS - this is stock I can not change this. I plan to do big file 1TB or so and to encrypt it with LUKS. Then I will format…
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