filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair

Eli Morris ermorris at ucsc.edu
Tue Jun 8 13:11:31 CDT 2010


On Jul 29, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Michael Monnerie wrote:

> On Freitag, 30. Juli 2010 Eli Morris wrote:
>> Is that something I could do now, or only when the filesystem is
>> created? If I mount it with '-o inode64', can I mount it without
>> that later, or once I write to the filesystem like that, can I not
>> go back to mounting it in 32 bit mode? 
> 
> Once you mount with inode64, you can't go back.
> 
> I'm not sure which applications are "broken", but I use inode64 for a 
> backup server where lots of Linux boxes connect to over NFS, and a Samba 
> for Windows PCs which has inode64, and at least didn't see any problem 
> over the years. That doesn't mean there isn't a problem, of course ;-)
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Thanks guys,

That makes sense.

cheers,
Eli




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