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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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Resize xfs root partition

Fedora 25 Hey guys, I've just cloned my 120gb SSD to a 240gb SSD, and would like to extend my root partition. It seems this isn't as easy as I was hoping and could use some assistance! fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 223.6 GiB, 240057409536 bytes,…
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XFS fs does not mount on boot but mounts ro ok from cli

I have a server with a LSI raid controller. The server shows two devices sda and sdb. sdb is not partitioned but has a xfs fs formatted directly (i don't know why) into it. We decide to reboot it after 100+ days of working flawlessly to test a new…
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how to remove a project id from xfs project quota?

I successfully use xfs project (or directory) quota. However I just discovered that I am unable to remove quota information once I don't need it anymore. For example, I had 3 projects with project id 1, 2, 3. I removed the directory of the project…
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Growing XFS filesystem on AWS in Kubernetes

I have an EBS volume that originally was 1 Tb: # df -h | grep data /dev/xvdcl 1000G 54G 946G 6% /usr/share/elasticsearch/data I then grew it to 3 Tb via the AWS console. Now I want to grow the fs on that volume. First I check the mount…
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Restoring logical volumes to their original sizes after running lvreduce and screwing things up in CentOS 7

Should have read more on the subject before attempting this, but now I am much more informed... screwing things up tends to do that. Only learned of the shortcomings of xfs after the fact. The OS was apparently installed with the default partitions…
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Networked In-Memory FileSystem w/ zram + XFS + GlusterFS - Best Practices

A few months ago I used XFS formatted zram devices strung together with GlusterFS to create a distributed / networked / replicated in-memory filesystem on a few bare metal servers (running RHEL 7.2). I'm using this FS as a performant way to store,…
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Format lvm from ext4 to xfs

I have an lvm partition with ext4 which I want to transform to XFS. I stumble upon fstransform which looks like the right tool, but to transform the partition it needs to be unmounted which is a problem. When I ran umount /path .. it says that the…
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Replacing BTRFS snapshots with XFS+LVM

I working on replacing an unstable btrfs snapshot based backup system. One of the option was to go ZFS but it's not natively in the kernel. XFS was reliable for me since 10 years but as my research shows it cannot do snapshots on it's own, people…
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xfsdump: Spanning multiple drives

I'm trying to create a one-off snapshot of 5.5TB of data to 3 external 2TB drives. The data is on an XFS partition, so the logical option seemed to be xfsdump, as it can span multiple devices. As a test, I've created a number of smaller partitions…
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Enabling quota on xfs partitions

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 I have installed the quota commandline tool from apt and found some instructions to enable quota on the root partition by appending rootflags=uquota,gquota to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX within the file /etc/default/grub followed by…
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Moving disk space from /home to / on RHEL7.2 with xfs file system

I've setup RHEL7 with default partitioning, and they partitioned it as following: /dev/mapper/rhel-home 100GB /home /dev/mapper/rhel-root 50GB / Both are on xfs filesystem. How can i shift most of my diskspace from /home to / ? I've tried the below…
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unable to mount XFS after rescue

I am facing strange problem with XFS file system. Below is the exact scenario: I'd a corrupt 2 TB disk with XFS (I/O error), so that decide to rescue data from old disk to new disk. I'd run ddrescue to rescue data to new disk. ddrescue finished…
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raid0 (soft-RAID using Linux md drivers) hosting XFS: how to repair after replacing bad disk?

So the latest configuration of our Nova compute nodes are using raw /dev/sdX devices (no labels nor partitions) as components for an md0 (raid0) array on which they're hosting an XFS filesystem. When one of the underlying hard disks fail, then the…
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Cant change user quota on xfs partition

I cant change user quota even command exit status is 0. Used: xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=1024m bhard=2048m 56a4d3057ec81767ebe0415b' / Also used webmin interface to update user quota but on both cases user quota is not changed. xfs_quota -xc…
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xfsretsore from a zipped image to a unmouted partition

I have a zipped image which I am restoring to a unmounted partition: gunzip -c /mnt/sda3/backup.gz | xfsrestore - /dev/sda7 I get a error: xfsrestore: ERROR: specified destination /dev/sda7 is not a directory xfsrestore: usage: xfsrestore [ -a…
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