Questions tagged [xfs]
Questions about XFS filesystem, utilities and other situations where XFS filesystem is relevant.
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XFS mount takes too long at boot
On my backup servers I created XFS LVM volumes for each hosts I backup. The server is a Lenovo running 930-16i hardware RAID adapter with SATA disks. When I reboot the server, it sometimes falls in ...
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Booting in maintenance mode does not show all LVs (for fsck)
This is a follow-up on this question: How to run fsck with LVM I have a RHEL 9 server which uses LVM on /dev/sda3. There are several LVs on a single VG. After booting in maintenance mode (rd.break ...
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df shows 539G used on /apps, but du shows only 47G — unexplained disk usage discrepancy
I have a problem and I don't know what the problem is. df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 5.0G 113M 4.9G 3% / /dev/mapper/appsvg-...
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Slow Linux file access to /tmp
time touch /tmp/test.dat real 0m1.03s user 0m0.00s sys 0m1.02s A full second of sys-mode time to create a file in /tmp. That can become unbearable for ksh scripts that open dozens of files ...
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SMB writes fail, system thinks a file is a directory
Got a new NAS server I'm testing. It's basically CentOS 7.5.1804 with Areca hardware RAID cards and lots of HDDs, and XFS volumes. Sporadic copying tests often succeed. But whenever I'm running large ...
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reflink==always space usage
I've got a large directory structure (email Maildir), with 705430 files, 1719 directories Using cp -rP --reflink=always $source $destination uses a fair chunk of space, approx 2–5GB. This is not a CoW ...
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Boot error / data corruption Redhat 7.9
After rebooting a Redhat 7.9 system, I am faced with data corruption on first partition (dev/sda1) The System is a VM and last shutdown was graceful from within the OS, no power off, hard stop etc. ...
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xfs_quota bsoft limit explanation
Using RHEL 8.9, I have xfs_quota applied to each home account folder under /home. In doing xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bhard=1g ron' /home I can observe for example a cp fail when trying to copy a single ...
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