On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:22:13AM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> >> [root@xxl root]# xfs_info /home
> >> meta-data=/home isize=256 agcount=160, agsize=262144
> >> blks
> >> = sectsz=512
> >> data = bsize=4096 blocks=41889120,
> >> imaxpct=25
> >> = sunit=32 swidth=96 blks,
> >> unwritten=0
> >> naming =version 2 bsize=4096
> >> log =external bsize=4096 blocks=25600, version=1
> >> = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks
> >> realtime =none extsz=393216 blocks=0, rtextents=0
> >>
> ...
> Unfortunately the problem looks like a timebomb to me. Is there a way to
> find out whether a filesystem has ever been grown? This would help me to
> find out whether the growing was the culprit here.
The above filesystem has almost certainly been grown. You can
tell because the agsize is fairly small & the agcount is quite
large (the only case where this may not have been grown is if
that agsize/agcount was explicitly requested at mkfs time, and
thats unlikely I think).
To contradict Eric - ;) - there is a cute trick you can use to
tell: if you run "mkfs.xfs -N /dev/XXX", this will just print
the geometry that mkfs _would_ have used (-N means "don't") so
if that doesn't match up to the actual filesystem geometry (in
particular, the agcount= field), then it has likely been grown.
Both this method and Erics method can be fooled if unusual mkfs
options were used when the filesystem was created, however.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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