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Unable To Label XFS File System (Doc ID 2560445.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.0 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

The system is running UEK4 kernel.

Label a XFS filesystem using xfs_io command.

[root@server ~]# xfs_io -c "label -s boot" /boot/
label: Inappropriate ioctl for device

The filesystem is mounted as verified with:

[root@server ~]# df -hT | grep -E '(xfs)'
/dev/mapper/vg_OS-root xfs 36G 14G 23G 37% /
/dev/mapper/vg_OS-home xfs 5.0G 33M 5.0G 1% /home
/dev/sda1 xfs 1014M 317M 698M 32% /boot

Cause

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