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Journaling File System (http://www.linux.org/threads/journaled-file-system-jfs.4404/). It was made by IBM.

Journaling File System (http://www.linux.org/threads/journaled-file-system-jfs.4404/). It was made by IBM.

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fixing/recovering JFS superblocks (or recover data from damaged filesystem)

Preface: Since this is a question about data recovery I expect a lot "non-answers" in the line of "where's your backup?" or "do it on block level image copies". Thanks, I know that, you don't have to lecture me on that. See the notes at the end for…
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Is pvcreate destructive? Attempting to recover an lvm2 volume group

I don't want to lose any data, so I'm asking if the solution Novell offers is safe to try. If not, are there safe alternatives? Step-by-tedious-step: I have two volume groups: main and Rand; Rand is what I boot from while main is an older…
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Copying a file on a JFS filesystem, does not follow ACL guidelines

I have a JFS filesystem /dev/md2 on /mnt/hd2 type jfs (rw) to which I'm trying to copy some folders into target folder /mnt/hd2/videos/movies/. NOTE: I'm actually not using this target folder directly, but a symbolic link in my home folder that…
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Performance of tar in a jfs2 with many small files

Observing the output of the tar command (-v flag) - observation by human eye - it seems to be pretty slower when it runs inside a sub-directory with about four hundred thousand small files (400000), there are others sub-directories inside this…
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How to copy files on AIX from an FS to another FS?

We got a filesystem: /foo And we got another filesystem: /bar Q: How can I copy all the files from /foo to /bar? We don't have space to compress them, only to copy them. But there could be symlinks, hardlinks in the filesystem. So need to preserve…
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Aix: edquota problem

Simple but don't work I did edquota -u myuser Open vi and I put those lines /home: blocks in use: 16, limits (soft = 10, hard = 30) inodes in use: 4, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0) But give me 4050-311 /home: blocks in use: 16, limits…
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Clear file system cache on AIX

I'm using AIX 6.1 and for testing. I want to clear the file system cache. Something similar a this on linux : echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Is this possible?
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