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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Lampa <lampacz@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_repair use all memory
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:42:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150617134200.6d5b08f3@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_XuNWJhCGrSB7jOi54wzdjxXVec+i=s6szkWea=8sx7SD50g@mail.gmail.com>

Le Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:33:48 +0200
Lampa <lampacz@gmail.com> écrivait:

> unable to repair - running without -n parameter requires more memory.
> Always killed by kernel
> 

If you have some storage room available on another filesystem, create
some swap space. I've done it once on a 1 GB RAM machine (adding up 8
GB of swap). The repair will be much, much longer but it works.

To create 64GB of swap space in a file, do something like this:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=65536 of=/some/file.swp
mkswap /some/file.swp
swapon /some/file.swp

However preferably don't use a single spinning drive, it's much too
slow. Flash devices are to be preferred, even a good quality USB thumb
drive will do.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-17 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-12 10:14 xfs_repair use all memory Lampa
2015-06-12 10:27 ` Emmanuel Florac
2015-06-12 10:36   ` Lampa
2015-06-12 13:43     ` Emmanuel Florac
2015-06-17 11:33       ` Lampa
2015-06-17 11:37         ` Carsten Aulbert
2015-06-17 11:42         ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]

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