posted 19 years ago
Redhat and fedora: /sbin/service xfs start
Most other Linux/unix systems (also works for the above):
/etc/init.d/xfs start
The /etc/init.d directory is where the master scripts for servers and other daemonic things live, and there's a system of little tricks that play upon them (the rc.x directories used by runlevel startups).
/etc/init.d/xfs status will tell whehter it thinks xfs is running (sometimes "no answer" means yes else a message). However if you have out-of-sync pid and/or lockfiles it may be incorrect.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.