How to do a xfs disk check of and encrypted /home partition

[Zebulon888]

Sometime (about 1 out of 5 time) during boot the boot process stops and hangs after entering the /home encryption password.

it just does not go further than telling me that a start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxx

I though to do a xfs check on the disk - but how would I do this since the disk has to be unmounted - and I guess also decrypted?

Running openSUSE eap 15.3

[dcurtisfra]

@Zebulon888

I though to do a xfs check on the disk - but how would I do this since the disk has to be unmounted - and I guess also decrypted?

In other words, the Partition as such is encrypted and, within that encryption there’s an XFS Filesystem?

• Assuming LUKS, there is a known issue related to LUKS and XFS – <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/684879/why-xfs-under-luks-encryption-is-so-slow-samsung-980-pro-ssd>.

Please be aware that, XFS filesystems perform automatic filesystem checking when mounted.
And, there are very few known issues related to running XFS filesystems within encrypted partitions.

• Bring the system into the systemd “Rescue” mode.
• The disks will still be mounted and, the partition encryption will still be running.
• Simply unmount the XFS filesystem (assuming that it’s a user partition and not a system partition) and then,
• Check the status of the encrypted partition – “cryptsetup status” – and then,
• Run “xfs_repair
  ” on the unmounted filesystem within the LUKS partition.