Weekend Project: Linux Filesystem Tune-up

“If the thought of getting up at 3AM on “Black Friday” and
dragging yourself across town to stand in line for sales doesn’t
fill you with the holiday spirit, why not spend your weekend doing
something more meaningful, like cleaning up your Linux filesystems?
To be sure, a modern Linux file server probably isn’t in need of
being torn down and rebuilt, but if you’re like a lot of us, you
partitioned those disks several releases ago with lofty intentions
of leveraging extents, delayed allocation, B+ trees, and all sorts
of other advanced features, only to let them languish at their
default settings instead. Well, the time to tune the filesystem is
now: grab a storage medium, a terminal, and optionally a turkey
leg, and let’s get to work.

“We can break down the task by looking at each advanced
filesystem in turn. You may run Ext4 on all of your disks, but you
may also have a mix of other modern filesystems in there, too. In
order to not get confused, run mount -l and jot down the device
name (e.g., /dev/sda6) and filesystem (whatever is listed right
after “type” in the output) for each mounted disk, then consult the
appropriate section.

“XFS

“The XFS filesystem originally written for Irix at Silicon
Graphics is designed to be high-performance, especially when
dealing with “large” files”

Complete Story