XFS® for Linux® Administration

Document Number: 007-4273-003

Front Matter

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Table of Contents

About This Guide
What This Guide Contains
Conventions Used in This Guide
Additional Resources
Reader Comments

1. The XFS Filesystem

2. Planning an XFS Filesystem
Choosing the Filesystem Block Size
Choosing the Filesystem Directory Block Size
Choosing the Log Type and Size
Choosing Allocation Groups and Stripe Units
Disk Repartitioning

3. Creating Filesystems
Making an XFS Filesystem
Growing an XFS Filesystem

4. Filesystem Maintenance
Filesystem Reorganization
Filesystem Corruption
Checking XFS Filesystem Consistency With xfs_check and xfs_repair
Repairing XFS Filesystem Problems

5. Quotas
Using Disk Quotas on XFS Filesystems

6. Backup and Recovery Procedures
Features of xfsdump and xfsrestore
Media Layout for xfsdump
Saving Data with xfsdump
Examining xfsdump Archives
About xfsrestore
Using xfsdump and xfsrestore to Copy Filesystems

A. XFS Linux and IRIX XFS

Index