Defragment XFS File-system

I have been using XFS file-system for all my Linux box for quite some time now. XFS have some fancy features such as live file-system defragmenting. Let's cover how to do that.

First, make sure you have the xfsdump utilities install. For Ubuntu or its derivatives distribution, simply issue this command:

sudo apt-get install xfsdump

Then, optionally you can check how fragmented your file-system is by this command:

sudo xfs_db -r /dev/hda1

xfs_db> frag

actual 300086, ideal 299315, fragmentation factor 0.26%

xfs_db> quit

In my case, my root is /dev/hda1. You need to reply with the device node containing your file-system you want to check.

How to defragment? Simple. Just invoke this command:

sudo xfs_fsr -v /dev/hda1

/ start inode=0

ino=1278965

extents before:2 after:1 DONE ino=1278965

ino=2114947

extents before:2 after:1 DONE ino=2114947

ino=3912996

...

ino=254717564

extents before:2 after:1 DONE ino=254717564