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If you have environment with filesystem above 2 TB, you could try benchmark with mounting with inode64 option. Afterwards you can use the mount command to check if the partition was correctly mounted.
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Next you can mount the xfs parttion using the mount command as you would with any partition. To mount the newly created partition you will have to first create a directory to be a mount point with the mkdir command, in our example we will use /mnt/db. Now that your partition is ready you can create a xfs filesystem by using the mkfs.xfs command, with the name of the partition you created like this: # mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1 Mounting the xfs filesystem dev/sdb1 should of course be replaced by the name of the partition you want to use. If the partition you want to format as xfs already exists on the system you must make sure it's not mounted by using the command umount command like this: # umount /dev/sdb1 You can use fdisk to create a new partition, like in the example below, you first need to invoke fdisk with the name of the harddisk you wish to create the partition on and then use "n" command inside fdisk for a new parttion, after you have set the size like in the example below you will need to use the "w" command to write the new table to disk. To create a new XFS file system you will first need a partition to format. FAQ of xfs.org is a good place to read before you start implementing this filesystem. A disadvantage of the XFS file system is that it cannot be shrunk, also metadata operations in have historically been slower than with other file systems, resulting in, for example, poor performance with operations such as deletions of large numbers of files. XFS excels in the execution of parallel input/output (I/O) operations due to its design, which is based on allocation groups, because of this, XFS enables extreme scalability of I/O threads, file system bandwidth, and size of files and of the file system itself when spanning multiple physical storage devices. It was introduced in the Linux kernel in 2001, XFS is supported by most Linux distributions, some of which use it as the default file system (RHEL/CentOS 7.0). XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by SGI in 1993.