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Re: XFS Problem



On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 02:58:36AM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:15:24AM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> > the xfs driver in yaboot, and grub does not read fragmented files
> > properly, you can check for this with xfs_bmap /boot/vmlinux check
> > for any holes, if there are any you will have problems booting.
> 
> Ah, thanks!  The files indeed had holes, both on the boot partition
> (15% used) and the partition they were built on (45% used).
> After "defragmenting" them with cat, they booted fine.

xfs_fsr may help with this as well, though cat probably is sufficient
most of the time.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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