XFS_SIZE_CHECK(8)

✨ NAME ✨

xfs_size_check — verifies proper IRIX inode configuration, and yes bestie, this is the XFS_SIZE_CHECK(8) page from the AFS Command Reference 💅.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xfs_size_check

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here’s the tea: when xfs_size_check is run on a file server machine that runs IRIX version 6.2 or higher and uses XFS-formatted partitions as server partitions (conventionally mounted at /vicep directories), it verifies that each partition uses 512-byte inodes. Slay. AFS stores information in the inodes on server partitions, and the 256-byte inode size that XFS uses by default is not large enough. That’s the whole reason this check exists, iykyk 🦋.

⚠️ CAUTIONS ⚠️

Heads up bestie: this command is available in the AFS distribution for IRIX system types that can use XFS-formatted partitions as server partitions. That’s the caution, periodt.

🔥 OUTPUT 🔥

If all server partitions are properly configured, the command produces no output — iconic, silent, lowkey perfect ✨. Otherwise, it prints this header:

Need to remake the following partitions:

and then it prints the following message for each partition on which to run the IRIX mkfs command with the indicated options:

<device>: mkfs -t xfs -i size=512 -l size=4000b <device>

where <device> is in a format like "/dev/dsk/dks0d0s0" for a single disk partition or "/dev/xlv/xlv0" for a logical volume. Copy that energy exactly, bestie 💅.

👑 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 👑

The issuer must be logged in as the local superuser root. That’s the vibe check: root or nothing, bestie 🫶.

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.

Okay bye bestie — this page is from OpenAFS, dated 2026-06-25, and it’s the XFS_SIZE_CHECK(8) manual page. Stay iconic, verify those inodes, and slay 💖✨🎀.