Questions tagged [xfs]
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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how to delete a xfs file system from logical volume (lvm2), to achieve the goal being this logical volume without any file system?
I have LVM RedHat 8 intall and there's one Volume Group there.
Fri May 19 [michal@Ora2 ~]$ sudo vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name ol
System ID
Format lvm2
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Cwd of a process started from hard link path
I have an app which is starting by path which contains a folder which is hard link.
If I look for process current working directory it is same as source of a hard link.
The main problem is that app ...
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dd: failed to open ‘/disk1/boot1.img’: Structure needs cleaning
Executing this Command :
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/disk1/boot1.img
I got this Error :
dd: failed to open ‘/disk1/boot1.img’: Structure needs cleaning
I tried that Command on my centos machine and got that ...
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How to repair an XFS volume in a RAID array
In a data server, we have a RAID array of 5 disks joined in an XFS filesystem. The dmesg output is:
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp134s0f0: link becomes ready
XFS (sda2): Mounting V5 Filesystem
XFS ...
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Expanding XFS file system from another device?
I have two virtual devices on a fedora system. Both are in a raid 5 configuration. No LVM is in place. The system it’s self is installed on one of the devices. That same device is also the one with ...
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xfs corruption metadata after reboot
I had a problem on a RAID1 with 4 disks. We replaced the faulty disk and restarted the server, the rebuild was done, two linux centos 7 machines did not come up accusing error of xfs corruption. Other ...
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xfs_repair -L sent all data to lost+found directory with code names
After a RAID recovery, my xfs partition of 20 TB did not mount and I tried to repair it with xfs_repair and subsequently xfs_repair -L option. Now the partition could be mounted and all the folders ...
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Audit Log 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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Virtual machine startup error, file system corruption how to, reboot
My virtual machine had a power failure and forced shutdown, when I restarted it, it entered rescue mode and reported the following error, I want to know how I should start it, there is some ...
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xfs: difference between block size and sector size
mkfs.xfs has two following options among others:
-b block_size_options
This option specifies the fundamental block size of the filesystem. The valid
block_size_options are: ...
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How do you Defrag an XFS file system
My old workstation, has /var /usr and /home mounted on an xfs file system, and it seems to spend most of its time grinding away, and getting slower and slower, much like windows used to 20 years ago, ...
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Running xfs_repair on hardware raid while still rebuilding?
Should I allow a hardware raid5 array rebuild to complete after swapping out a drive PRIOR to running an xfs_repair on the volume?
Currently xfs_repair keeps failing in Phase 7 at the same spot:
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fstrim is very slow on xfs and always return same value unlike ext4
I just noticed if I do time fstrim /<some ext4>; time fstrim /<some ext4> the 2nd call usually print 0 bytes trimmed and finished immediately. However if I do same thing on XFS, 2 of the ...
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Restore docker btrfs subvolumes from another drive
I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with btrfs as root fs.
I decided to free up space on root and move docker root directory to my home (XFS filesystem).
Problem was, after moving and made symbolic link to /var/...
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Red Hat 7 XFS partition could not be mounted (can't read superblock)
I have a problem with several mounts. Can't read superbock is the error as reported below as example. I tried xfs_repair with/without -L but still got issue. Could someone advice?
# mount /dev/lvm02/...
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How to recover XFS file system which xfs_repair not work because of busy?
I got problem in disk of my database which is xfs file system. I tried to repair
[root@scan /]# xfs_repair /dev/md127
xfs_repair: cannot open /dev/md127: Device or resource busy
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Unable to mount an XFS filesystem from Linux RAID6 array ("Log inconsistent")
First time poster - my apologies if I don't get the etiquette correct.
I have a ~200TB RAID6 array with 30 disks and I'm unable to mount it - I just get the message:
mount /dev/md125 /export/models
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inodes & read only bind mount
I'm using xfs filesystem, speaking about inodes topic have a question: does RO bind mount points consumes inodes?
The information is the same, strictly speaking; because the binds mounts point to a ...
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Very big device in Centos
I have older VM (Centos7) where I have many disks. Now it is 36 vmdk (22TB). I wanted extend one virtual disk to 2400GB and create new partition for LVM (3th on disk). But after I create partion I see ...
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Is possible to change metadata of XFS system to another disk (such SSD)
I've a system in VPS with a big XFS.
Now I have the possibility to add an SSD device to that VPS.
Is it possible to change the meta-data destination from partition formatted as SSD to SSD partition to ...
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xfs_repair runs instantly, surely this should take some time to run?
I'm trying to troubleshoot some issues with multiple database engines crashing and logs suggesting corruption while reading from disk, so I'm running xfs_repair on a 2TB NVMe which contains the files.
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NFS mounted XFS file systems not visible using xfs_quota
With CentOS7, I made the leap to XFS (from ext4) and since then I have been unable to query quotas on NFS Clients via the quota or xfs_quota commands. The xfs_quota command also does not report any ...
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Increase memory usage on NFS Server
I'm producing data (100GB files) that are finally copied to a server through NFS v4.2, on a 10Gb network. These files are stored on many HDDs, with XFS formatting (one copy per target drive).
When the ...
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Cannot resize XFS partition after volume increase
I have increased the size of my volume from 8GB to 16GB. After resizing the volume, I would like to expand the partition to take on the additional space.
However, this operation is failing with data ...
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How do I maximize nvme raid0(md) performance (in linux)?
Nvme raid0 read(and write) performance is sometimes worse than the performance of one individual underlying drive.
hdparm -t /dev/md0 :
Timing buffered disk reads: 7054 MB in 3.00 seconds = ...
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xfs superblock corrupted after power cut
Like others before me the superbock on my xfs drive has become corrupted. I've tried xfs_repair and xfs_repair -L to restore the drive but both report back the same result:
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High avgqu-sz & utilisation on madadm RAID 0 in AWS EC2 I3.8x large instance
I have an AWS EC2 i3.8xlarge with 4x1.9TB ephemeral storage volumes tied in mdadm RAID-0 (Yes, RAID 0) with XFS file system mounted using noatime and inode64 options. I am running an IO intensive ...
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Issue with removing LV disk space that was extended from another disk
I have a redhat server with two disks 100gb and 500gb. The 500GB disk was unused, however I then used it to extend the /var LV. The filesystem on all mountpoints are xfs and you actually can't reduce ...
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Ways to make a backup on RAID5 filesystem (mdadm) with many files
I have a NAS containing RAID5 array (5.4TB in total, 2.9TB in use) using mdadm.
Now I plan to modify some hardware of it (especially SATA controller), so I'd like to have a whole backup of this RAID5 ...
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`fio` does not timeout even specified?
# fio --name=random-write --directory=/mnt/test/ --ioengine=posixaio --rw=randwrite -bs=4k --numjobs=1 --size=4g -iodepth=1 -runtime=600 --time_based --end_fsync=1
random-write: (g=0): rw=randwrite, ...
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Failed to Partition a 10TB HD?
Before I tried to partition a 10TB HDD again, parted saw it:
# parted /dev/sdb
(parted) print list
Model: ATA ST10000NM0016-1T (scsi)
Disk /dev/...
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Convert ext4/xfs file system to btrfs with minimal application impact
I'm trying to find a way to convert the file system of app servers (some of which run ext4 and some xfs) to btrfs. Preferably, I'd like to do this without needing to turn off the services.
So far I've ...
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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 ...
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Does LXC support XFS filesystem?
I am working on my local system and I want to run both docker and LXC containers.
Docker provides storage options that only works with XFS to limit the storage volume inside containers.
But that ...
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xfs: can't read superblock
I get the following error:
[root@mediaserv ~]# mount /dev/mapper/media1 /media
mount: /media: can't read superblock on /dev/mapper/media1.
This is Fedora 33. I have a RAID5 of 8x 8TB WD Red drives ...
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How to force re-read XFS file system contents
In our computing cluster we have set up a simple but quite effective way of serving data to computing nodes.
The storage system provides to luns that are merged with LVS and on top of that we build a ...
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No partition table required?
I was surprised to find two of my environments had different setups. One has a DOS partition style, while the other does not appear to have any kind of table defined whatsoever.
I'm sort of familiar ...
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between ex4 and XFS which is better for large small files [closed]
Between EXT4 and XFS which file system is better when an application uses multiple threads to read/write large amount of small files on a SSD.
From what I read
In general, Ext3 or Ext4 is better if ...
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df differs from du a lot, nfsd service seems matter
I know there have been a lot of discussion on the df/du discrepancy topic. But here I’d post a special issue and ask for some hints.
here is the detail( with a hardware raid5 with 6 sas disks)
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AWS XFS performance issues. Stripped setup vs single disk setup
I wanted to share an issue (I guess I may be misunderstanding some concepts) that I'm facing with some benchmarks I'm doing to XFS setups, as we are going to recently migrate a service to a new ...
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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-...
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Cannot mount XFS volume on Hetzner vps
After a volume a resizing i cannot mount an attached volume on Hetzner cloud vps
root@MONITOR-BACKUP /mnt # mount -o discard,defaults /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0HC_Volume_1552045 /mnt/BACKUP-STORAGE
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Expand XFS encrypted block device with no LVM
I need to expand my LUKS encrypted XFS volume but I'm not sure where to start as this is about a non-LVM device, its a simple block storage from a cloud provider that I extended from 150GB to 200GB ......
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How to change the file system of a partition in a RAID 1?
First, sorry if the question has already been asked and correctly answered, I did not find anything that satisfies me.
I rent a dedicated machine in a datacenter, the machine run with a Debian 10 and ...
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Move xfs journal from internal to external without losing data
I have a big XFS filesystem containing about 3TB of data. This runs on some network device at our virtual server provider. We created it with the default settings, thus using an internal journal.
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XFS inodes not neessarily unique?
(Debian 10.5, kernel 4.19.132-1 )
My understanding is that inodes are unique on a given filesystem, and indeed if we look at man inode we get the following assertion:
Each file in a filesystem has ...
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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 ...
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RHEL + OS with XFS file system while adding additional partition with diff definition
We have the following disk - sda ( in server production - very important server )
sda is the disk of the OS ( rhel 7.2 ) , and file system is xfs
sda is physical disk
Xfs created with - mkfs.xfs -f -...
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Docker installation on RHEL 7.2 and file system requirement
We have old RHEL machine version 7.2
And we prepare to install docker service on this server
The problem is that server's filesystem was created with ftype=0 parametre and docker requires ftype=1
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Confirming parameters for XFS filesystem and LVM volume striping over 2 ADAPT (RAID6-like) volumes
We are setting up an ADAPT0 (RAID-60-like) configuration for a file server.
We have six disk pools. Each consists of 14 disks and is set up using ADAPT. According to Dell's official white paper, ADAPT ...
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