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XFS is an open source file system for Linux.

XFS is an open source file system for Linux that supports journaling. It is particularly proficient at parallel Input/Output operations.

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Recreating an XFS file system with `ftype=1`

I have a CentOS 7 system where the root file system is XFS (created with ftype=0, the default CentOS setting at the time the system was installed). Unfortunately, the Docker overlay2 storage driver requires that file system to have been created with…
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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 afford to rsync whole storage to new VM disk…
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How to mount XFS filesystem in ubuntu

I am trying to mount a hard drive with an XFS filesystem on it in Ubuntu. It was originally formatted in a netgear stora NAS device. I am using a command in ubuntu like this, sudo mount -t xfs /dev/sdc1 /mnt/stora The command craps out the whole…
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How to grow xfs formated disk?

Here is the disk, it is thin provisioned vmware disk, and has been grown from 300 to 800 GB *-disk:1 description: SCSI Disk physical id: 0.1.0 bus info: scsi@2:0.1.0 logical name: /dev/sdb size: 800GiB (858GB) …
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XFS Incorrect statement of "No space left on device"

I have a server setup of an XFS partition on LVM on a Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. While copying files to the home partition, "No space left on device" is displayed. df -h displays sufficient space: /dev/mapper/prod--vg-home 35G 21G 15G 60% /home I…
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Mounting LVM2 volume with XFS filesystem

Unfortunately I'm not able to access the data on my NAS anymore. I can't figure out why this is the case as I haven't changed anything. So I plugged one of the harddisks in my computer to access the data. What I did: kpartx -a /dev/sdc Now I should…
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Mount XFS partition on OS X using OSXFUSE

How can I mount an XFS-partition on OS X 10.7 using OSXFUSE? In their filesystem repository under filesystems-c/unixfs I have found minixfs. However, I'm not sure how to go about installing it and using it to mount the partition, hence I would be…
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XFS Can't Read the Superblock

I awoke this morning to find an email from my RAID host (Linux software RAID) telling me that a drive had failed. It's consumer hardware, it's not a big deal. I have cold spares. However, when I got to the server the whole thing was unresponsive.…
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What filesystem should I use for a large amount of disk space in Linux (>32TB)?

I am trying to make a large file system in linux, but have run into problems with many of the common file systems. JFS has a bug that does not allow expansion over 32TB. XFS has a bug in the fsck that causes the machine to use all available memory…
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Mounting XFS filesystem on Mac

I would like to know if it is possible to mount an XFS filesystem on a Mac as I want to use XFS on my flash drive.
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How can I access a Linux partition from Windows?

I'd like to be able to access my Linux /home partition from within Windows on a dual-boot machine. Since the partition is formatted for XFS, I can't use explore2fs. What other ways might I be able to access my Linux partitions? I've considered…
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XFS and loss of data when power goes down

Each time electricity goes down, my desktop (without UPS) loses some temporary information. Opera can lose settings, history, cache, or mail accounts (Thanks heavens I was wise to use IMAP). Partially or all together. a whole file (complete and…
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XFS: Mount overrides sunit and swidth options

I have a 9TB XFS partition consisting of four 3TB disks in a RAID-5 array with a chunk size of 256KB, using MDADM. When I created the partition, the optimal stripe unit and width values (64 and 192 blocks) were detected and set automatically, which…
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What exactly does the ikeep mount option on XFS do?

I have a laptop with a 512GB SSD in it. I use XFS as my / file system, mounted with noatime,discard,ikeep. The ikeep is because of some mailing list posting about how slow discard and TRIM was on XFS and suggested using ikeep to improve…
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How to find out the last time an XFS partition was mounted

I found the answer to this question, but that only works for EXT* filesystems, there's an answer also for NFS (even though the question tagged ext4). However I'm using XFS so neither of the answers works for me. There was a comment on the accepted…
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