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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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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: Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... superblock read failed, offset 0,…
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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 filesystem to the external HDD before…
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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 storage limit doesn't get applied if I use BTRFS or…
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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 with the concept where Oracle, for example, sits…
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between ex4 and XFS which is better for large small files

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 an application uses a single read/write thread and…
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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 mount: /dev/sdb: can't read superblock fdisk…
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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 ... Now I need to resize the underlining…
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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 a unique inode number. But I do not appear to…
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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 -n ftype=0 /dev/sda lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN…
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Folder in Ubuntu Became a File and the other Show Question Mark in Owner/Group

I encountered a very weird issue, appreciate if someone could help. One of my folder stored in a LVM2 XFS filesystem (mdadm RAID6), silently became a file and a folder showing question mark on both owner and group. All the data on this filesystem…
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How to recover a TAR file from a partially overwritten XFS disk?

This is the scenario. The environment is Linux (Arch Linux actually). An uncompressed 1,3TB tar file has been written on a freshely XFS-formatted 2TB disk as a backup. Later on, a 586MB UEFI boot image has been written (by mistake) to the very same…
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Centos 7 Move storage space from one filesystem to another

I have a server using Centos 7, and with the storage capacity allocated as such: What I would like to do is take some of the space from the /dev/mapper/centos-home file system and give it to /dev/mapper/centos-root. Now, I am aware I have to…
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How to convert ext2 to xfs file system on Centos 7

I want to convert my partition file system ext2 to xfs since I will be dealing with larger files. I am not quite sure how to do it, should I convert ext2 to ext4 first, then ext4 to xfs or direct conversion to ext2 -> ext4 possible? I only know how…
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Cannot mount XFS partition

I have a XFS partition in one of my HDD partitions. Here's my disks: aksesfarma@elementary-PC:~$ sudo blkid -o list device fs_type label mount point UUID ------------------------------------------- /dev/sda1 ext4 / …
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Detect faulty drive in RAID 10 array

I've been told that I can only verify my HW RAID array is working perfectly with KVM. However, I want to be automatically notified when there is a problem by my server. Is there a way via SSH (that will be called via system() in php) that can detect…
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