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<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<a name="NAME"></a><h2>NAME</h2><p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3>xfs_admin - change parameters of an XFS filesystem</font></p>
<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2>SYNOPSIS</h2><p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3><B>xfs_admin</B></font> <font size=3>[</font> <font size=3><B>&shy;lu</B></font><font size=3>] [</font> <font size=3><B>-L</B></font> <font size=3><I>label</I></font> <font size=3>] [</font> <font size=3><B>-U</B></font> <font size=3><I>uuid</I></font> <font size=3>] device<br>
<B>xfs_admin -f</B></font> <font size=3>[</font> <font size=3><B>&shy;lu</B></font><font size=3>] [</font> <font size=3><B>-L</B></font> <font size=3><I>label</I></font> <font size=3>] [</font> <font size=3><B>-U</B></font> <font size=3><I>uuid</I></font> <font size=3>] filename</font></p>
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3><I>xfs_admin</I></font> <font size=3>uses the</font> <font size=3><I>xfs_db</I></font><font size=3>(8) command to modify various parameters of a filesystem.</font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3>Devices that are mounted cannot be modified. Administrators must unmount filesystems before</font> <font size=3><I>xfs_admin</I></font> <font size=3>or</font> <font size=3><I>xfs_db</I></font> <font size=3>can convert parameters. A number of parameters of a mounted filesystem can be examined and modified using the</font> <font size=3><I>xfs_growfs</I></font><font size=3>(8) command.</font></p>
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<p><font size=3><B>-f</B></font></p>
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<p><font size=3>Specifies that the filesystem image to be processed is stored in a regular file (see the</font> <font size=3><I>mkfs.xfs</I></font> <font size=3><B>-d</B></font> <font size=3><I>file</I></font> <font size=3>option).</font></p>
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<p><font size=3><B>-l</B></font></p>
<p><font size=3><B>-u</B></font></p>
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<p><font size=3>Print the current filesystem label.</font></p>
<p><font size=3>Print the current filesystem UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier).</font></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3><B>-L</B></font> <font size=3><I>label</I></font>
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<p><font size=3>Set the filesystem label. XFS filesystem labels can be at most 12 characters long; if</font> <font size=3><I>label</I></font> <font size=3>is longer than 12 characters,</font> <font size=3><I>xfs_admin</I></font> <font size=3>will truncate it and print a warning message. The filesystem label can be cleared using the special ``</font><font size=3><B>--</B></font><font size=3>'' value for</font> <font size=3><I>label</I></font><font size=3>.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3><B>-U</B></font> <font size=3><I>UUID</I></font>
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<p><font size=3>Set the UUID of the filesystem. A sample UUID looks like this: &quot;c1b9d5a2&shy;f162&shy;11cf&shy;9ece&shy;0020afc76f16&quot;. The uuid may also be</font> <font size=3><I>null</I></font><font size=3>, which will set the filesystem UUID to the null UUID. The uuid may also be</font> <font size=3><I>generate</I></font><font size=3>, which will generate a new UUID for the filesystem.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3>The</font> <font size=3><I>mount</I></font><font size=3>(8) manual entry describes how to mount a filesystem using its label or UUID, rather than its block special device name.</font></p>
<a name="SEE ALSO"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p style="margin-left: 18%"><font size=3>mkfs.xfs(8), mount(8), xfs_db(8), xfs_growfs(8), xfs(5).</font><br>
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