Create and Extend XFS filesystem based on LVM
Abstract: option [[email protected] ~]# lvextend -L +3G /dev/vg_xfs/xfs_db -r As we can see above that the size of[[email protected] ~]# mkfs.xfs /dev/vg_xfs/xf
XFS is a File system which is designed for high performance ,scalability and Capacity point of view. It is generally used where large amount data to be stored / used on the File system. Some of the awesome freeze features of xfs are xfs_freeze, snapshot, xfs_unfreeze. One of the limitation of XFS is that we can not shrink or reduce this file system.
XFS is the default file system on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7. In this post we will discuss how to create and extend xfs file system based on LVM in CentOS 7. I am assuming that a new disk is assigned to Linux box and i am going to perform below steps on CentOS 7.
Step:1 Create a partition using fdiskIn the below example i have created 10GB partition on /dev/sdb and set 「8e」 as toggle id.
Step:2 Create LVM components : pvcreate, vgcreate and lvcreate.
[[email protected] ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdb1 Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created [[email protected] ~]# [[email protected] ~]# vgcreate vg_xfs /dev/sdb1 Volume group "vg_xfs" successfully created [[email protected] ~]# [[email protected] ~]# lvcreate -L +6G -n xfs_db vg_xfs Logical volume "xfs_db" created [[email protected] ~]#Step:3 Create XFS file system on lvm parition 「/dev/vg_xfs/xfs_db」
[[email protected] ~]# mkfs.xfs /dev/vg_xfs/xfs_dbStep:4 Mount the xfs file system
Create a directory named as xfs_test under /root and mount it using mount command.
For the permanent mounting , use /etc/fstab file.
Step:5 Extend the size of xfs file systemCheck the whether free space is available in Volume group (vg_xfs) or not using below command :
[[email protected] ~]# vgs vg_xfs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg_xfs 1 1 0 wz--n- 10.00g 4.00g [[email protected] ~]#
So we will extend the file system by 3GB using lvextend command with 「-r」 option
[[email protected] ~]# lvextend -L +3G /dev/vg_xfs/xfs_db -r
As we can see above that the size of 「/dev/vg_xfs/xfs_db」 has been extended from 6 GB to 9GB
Note : If xfs is not based on LVM , the use the xfs_growsfs command as shown below :
[[email protected] ~]# xfs_growfs <Mount_Point> -D <Size>
The 「-D size」 option extend the file system to the specified size (expressed in file system blocks). Without the -D size option, xfs_growfs will extend the file system to the maximum size supported by the device.
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