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Chapter 5: Maintaining Filesystems


This chapter describes administration procedures for maintaining XFS and EFS filesystems that may need to be performed on a routine or as-needed basis. It is extremely important to maintain filesystems properly, in addition to backing up the data they contain. Failure to do so might result in loss of valuable system and user information.

The major sections in this chapter are:


Routine Filesystem Administration Tasks
Mounting and Unmounting Filesystems
Managing Disk Space
Copying XFS Filesystems With xfs_copy
Checking EFS Filesystem Consistency With fsck
Checking XFS Filesystem Consistency With xfs_check

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