I’m using amazon, and there is docs everywhere to use xfs. Is xfs a software based raid? Is it fast? Answer XFS is not a RAID implementation. It is a filesystem. It does happen to have some nice tweaking ability. Some of those tweaks increase the performance of the filesystem when used in a RAID … Read more
we have redhat machines version – 6.x all disks that mounted have xfs files system as: UUID=198s5364-a29c-429e-b16d-e772acd /data_SA xfs rw,noatime,inode64,allocsize=16m 1 2 we want to fix the file system on some of the disks, what is the right approach to use xfs_repair fsck.xfs fsck Answer From the fsck man page: fsck.xfs is called by the … Read more
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question Which file system best handle multiple, concurrent write sessions Which file system can handle more concurrent write sessions; let’s say … Read more
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 / xxxx /dev/sda3 ntfs System Reserved (not mounted) xxxx /dev/sda4 ntfs (not mounted) xxxx /dev/sda5 ext4 /home xxxx /dev/sda6 swap <swap> xxxx /dev/sdb1 xfs (not mounted) xxxx … Read more
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 to convert ext2 to … Read more
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 unmount the /home and remount it somehow at a smaller size. … Read more
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 disk device with this very command: dd if=./bootimage of=/dev/sdd bs=4M. What … Read more
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 that a drive is having problems? … Read more
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 One option of course is to format the disk with mkfs and create new file system with ftype=1 But we want to stay … Read more
I have a partition that is formatted as ext3 I dd unmount it. Formatted as xfs (for quicker format) and I got an error. When I formatted it as ext3 again, it worked. What is the command to format an ext3 as xfs ? This is an Amazon EBS volume that I need to empty. … Read more
