fsck.xfs(8)

fsck.xfs8

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Usage

fsck.xfs [filesys ...]

Overview

fsck.xfs is called by the generic Linux fsck(8) program at startup to check and repair an XFS filesystem. XFS is a journaling filesystem and performs recovery at mount(8) time if necessary, so fsck.xfs simply exits with a zero exit status.

If you wish to check the consistency of an XFS filesystem, or repair a damaged or corrupt XFS filesystem, see xfs_repair(8).

However, the system administrator can force fsck.xfs to run xfs_repair(8) at boot time by creating a /forcefsck file or booting the system with "fsck.mode=force" on the kernel command line.

Files

/etc/fstab.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0–7
  5. 8–9
  6. 10–Arch

From xfsprogs 7.2.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.