Disk partition labels
Posted: 2023-09-30 Filed under: system | Tags: disk, disk label, e2label, efi, ext2, fstab, label, mkfs.vfat, mkfs.xfs, mkswap, swap, swaplabel, XFS Leave a commentThat’s something I never had the habit of doing… labeling my disk partitions. However, I’d like to make things a bit easier to remember. After searching a bit, I came up with the following. I was doing a fresh install of Slackware and was going to format the partitions anyway.
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XFS: corruption of in-memory
Posted: 2019-08-05 Filed under: system | Tags: corruption, in-memory data, XFS, xfs_check, xfs_do_force_shutdown, xfs_repair Leave a commentWell… one of my partitions, on a SSD, suddenly died. I’ve been building packages in a virtual machine (VB 5.2.28 r130011) of Slackware 14.2 x86_64. All was going fine until my desktop, the host machine, completely froze. Could not go to another runlevel or anything. In the end, I pushed the reset button, and upon boot my /home partition (sda3) did not mount.
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XFS duplicate UUID
Posted: 2019-07-15 Filed under: system | Tags: clone, disk, mount, uiid, XFS, xfs_admin Leave a commentDuring my disk cloning exercises, I stumbled upon an issue when cloning a partition formatted as XFS. Cloning with dd went fine, however, when trying to mount the newly created partition in Thunar, I would get an error (sorry no screenshot). Then, I tried to mount in manually and investigate what the problem was.
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SSD trimming as a cron job
Posted: 2016-01-23 Filed under: system | Tags: cron, crontab, ext4, fstrim, fstrimDaemon, SSD, trim, XFS 3 CommentsI use XFS for my SSD and the partitions are mounted with default settings in /etc/fstab. Instead of using the discard option, I decided to set the fstrim command running as a cron job. As a side note, other filesystems that support trimming listed in the Arch Wiki are: Btrfs, Ext4, JFS.
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XFS
Posted: 2016-01-14 Filed under: system | Tags: noatime, relatime, SSD, trim, XFS, xfs_db, xfs_fsr, xfs_repair 2 CommentsI am using XFS at the moment and I will put here a few filesystem related tools, for my own future use. The Arch Linux wiki has good documentation. Read the rest of this entry »
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