Tag Archives: XFS

XFS: corruption of in-memory

Posted on 2019-08-05 by

Well… 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 … Continue reading →

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XFS duplicate UUID

Posted on 2019-07-15 by

During 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 … Continue reading →

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SSD trimming as a cron job

Posted on 2016-01-23 by

I 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 … Continue reading →

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XFS

Posted on 2016-01-14 by

I 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.

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