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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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CentOS 7 Linux resize filesystem after partition resize

I am running CentOS 7 on a HyperV virtual server. I recently increased the size of the hard disk from 32GB to 64GB and used GParted Live to extend the partition, which seems to have worked as shown here: However, when checking Disk Usage Analyser…
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