Help setting up XFS

[Prithvi Rathore]

Hi, I am a student currently pursuing my under-graduation and would love to use XFS. I believe it has a lot to offer and I Iook forwarding to testing and using it on an external device like a pen-drive (USB) for starters. I was a bit confused on how to set up XFS. I am currently using Ubuntu 14.04 dual boot (via rEFInd) with Mac OS X on MacBook Air 2013. The various documentation available at xfs.org, surely is very informative and provides an elaborate description on XFS features. Setting XFS up however is where i am a bit stuck. From the various online material available, I found the following ways:
1) From terminal # sudo apt-get install xfsprogs # sudo apt-get install xfsdump I believe it sets up the version 3.1.9.
2) Another method was, that i tried was downloading the tar file from the sgi link. It downloaded xfs-progs- 3.2.1.tar.gz
3) From various discussions done online i found people changing a few settings in the $ make menuconfig GUI screen, hence adding support for XFS.
I am also a bit confused on how to use the device name (USB pen drive) when i will run the mkfs.xfs as I heard it doesn't work for a mounted device. I know you may be busy and my mail might seem a bit amateur, but I would really appreciate if you could guide me on how to setup XFS and run it for a USB device. Any link explaining the same would also be really appreciated. Thank you.
Warm Regards

[Eric Sandeen]

You don't yet need xfs-specific information, I think you need some
very basic linux help. There is a lot of it out there if you look,
for example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+format+a+usb+drive+with+linux

-Eric

Post by Prithvi Rathore
Hi,
I am a student currently pursuing my under-graduation and would love to use XFS. I believe it has a lot to offer and I Iook forwarding to testing and using it on an external device like a pen-drive (USB) for starters.
I was a bit confused on how to set up XFS. I am currently using Ubuntu 14.04 dual boot (via rEFInd) with Mac OS X on MacBook Air 2013.
1) From terminal
# sudo apt-get install xfsprogs
# sudo apt-get install xfsdump
I believe it sets up the version 3.1.9.
2) Another method was, that i tried was downloading the tar file from the sgi link. It downloaded xfs-progs-
3.2.1.tar.gz
3) From various discussions done online i found people changing a few settings in the $ make menuconfig GUI
screen, hence adding support for XFS.
I am also a bit confused on how to use the device name (USB pen drive) when i will run the mkfs.xfs as I heard it doesn't work for a mounted device.
I know you may be busy and my mail might seem a bit amateur, but I would really appreciate if you could guide me on how to setup XFS and run it for a USB device. Any link explaining the same would also be really appreciated. Thank you.
Warm Regards
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[Carlos E. R.]

Hi,
    I am a student currently pursuing my under-graduation and would love to use XFS. I believe it has a lot to offer and I Iook forwarding to
testing and using it on an external device like a pen-drive (USB) for starters.
    I was a bit confused on how to set up XFS. I am currently using Ubuntu 14.04 dual boot (via rEFInd) with Mac OS X on MacBook Air 2013. 

I don't know about Ubuntu. In openSUSE I just open the graphical tool to
format any device and format it, just selecting in the drop list XFS or
any other type I want. On other distributions I would use gparted.

The procedure is exactly the same for any filesystem you choose.

I rather think that what you need is help on using Linux, not XFS.

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)